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[
### Trump’s Golden Age of Bunk
](/news/the-lede/donald-trump-address-to-joint-session-of-congress)
Much of what the President said in his speech to Congress was inflammatory, radical, and dangerous, **Susan B. Glasser** writes. But even the most unhinged address can be boring if it goes on long enough.
Today’s Mix
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[
### Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia
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Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.
By Margaret Talbot
[
### What Putin Wants Now
](/news/q-and-a/what-putin-wants-now)
Donald Trump has suspended all military aid to Ukraine in an apparent attempt to bring the country to the negotiating table. But does Russia need to negotiate?
By Isaac Chotiner
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### David Johansen’s Debauched, Preening Brilliance
](/news/postscript/david-johansens-debauched-preening-brilliance)
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As the front man of the New York Dolls, Johansen was instrumental in the genesis of punk in the nineteen-seventies. His solo work was equally audacious.
By Amanda Petrusich
[
### A Federal Employee’s Termination Nightmare
](/news/deep-state-diaries/we-are-considering-you-as-being-terminated)
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Zain Shirazi, inspired by his family’s experience of post-9/11 racism, worked at the E.E.O.C. fighting harassment. The Trump Administration fired him.
By E. Tammy Kim
Annals of Higher Education
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### Will Harvard Bend or Break?
](/magazine/2025/03/10/will-harvard-bend-or-break)
At the oldest and wealthiest university in the country—a flagship for American higher education—free-speech battles and pressure from the second Trump Administration’s funding cuts have created a crisis.
By Nathan Heller
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The Lede
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A daily column on what you need to know.
[
### Tim Walz Might Run for President in 2028 if You Ask Him Nicely
](/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/does-tim-walz-have-any-regrets)
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Kamala Harris’s running mate describes losing in 2024, opposing Donald Trump now, and his future.
By David Remnick
[
### Geothermal Power Is a Climate Moon Shot Beneath Our Feet
](/news/the-lede/geothermal-power-is-a-climate-moon-shot-beneath-our-feet)
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The center of the Earth is so hot that it could satisfy the entire world’s energy needs. But can scientists safely tap into it?
By Brent Crane
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### Trump’s Disgrace
](/magazine/2025/03/10/trumps-disgrace)
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While F.D.R. set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing.
By David Remnick
[
### A Ukrainian Family’s Three Years of War
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Mykola Hryhoryan was on the front lines before being gravely injured. Now, with American support in question and the country’s troops depleted, he’s preparing for the possibility of going back.
By Michael Holtz
[
### Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered
](/news/the-lede/trumps-epa-seeks-to-deny-science-that-americans-discovered)
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It’s in this country that scientists, funded by or working for the government, came to understand the role of carbon in our atmosphere.
By Bill McKibben
[
### The End of Seriousness
](/culture/the-lede/the-end-of-seriousness)
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Our unfunny times are rife with laughter that seldom offers relief.
By Lauren Michele Jackson
[
### The Peril Donald Trump Poses to Ukraine
](/news/the-lede/the-peril-donald-trump-poses-to-ukraine)
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Some analysts hoped that Trump might end the war; they are stunned that the U.S. has now “changed sides.”
By Keith Gessen
Letter from New Orleans
[
### A Fan’s Notes on the Spectacle of Super Bowl Week
](/magazine/2025/03/10/a-fans-notes-on-the-spectacle-of-super-bowl-week)
There’s the game itself, and then there are the parties and promotions, a glad-handing orgy for the sports-entertainment complex.
By Nick Paumgarten
The Critics
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Notes on Hollywood
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### Return to Oz: An Oscars-Night Diary
](/culture/notes-on-hollywood/return-to-oz-a-2025-oscars-night-diary)
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The night involved a pair of split pants, a minor earthquake, and a major lovefest for “Anora.”
By Michael Schulman
Postscript
[
### Gene Hackman’s Dangerous Smile
](/culture/postscript/gene-hackmans-dangerous-smile)
The mystery surrounding the great actor’s death belies the solidity of his presence.
By Anthony Lane
Photo Booth
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### Stay Tuned for These “S.N.L.” Bumpers
](/culture/photo-booth/stay-tuned-for-these-snl-bumpers)
Mary Ellen Matthews has been shooting the show’s hosts and musical guests for a quarter of a century. Finally, you can admire her work for more than three seconds.
By Emma Allen
The Front Row
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### “This Life of Mine”: A Terminal Masterwork
](/culture/the-front-row/this-life-of-mine-a-terminal-masterwork)
The last film by Sophie Fillières, who died before completing it, is a bold reckoning with an artist’s self-awareness and personal freedom in the face of illness.
By Richard Brody
Podcast
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### The Show That Finds the Intrigue Lurking in the Everyday
](/culture/podcast-dept/the-origins-of-the-humdrum-curious-history-of-your-home-podcast)
“The Curious History of Your Home” delves into the origins of the humdrum.
By Sarah Larson
On and Off the Menu
[
### A Crowning Moment for the New Orleans King Cake
](/magazine/2025/03/10/a-crowning-moment-for-the-new-orleans-king-cake)
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During Carnival, the ingenuity of the city’s bakers is on full display.
By Hannah Goldfield
[
](https://www.newyorker.com/gallery/cartoons-from-the-march-10-2025-issue)Peruse a gallery of[cartoons from the issue »](https://www.newyorker.com/gallery/cartoons-from-the-march-10-2025-issue)
[
### The Best Books We Read This Week
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A vivid account of how the papacy has masked the Church’s stubborn resistance to change; an assiduously researched history that advocates for a reëvaluation of Anne Frank as a human being and a literary artist; an assured début novel modelled on the real-life Preppy Murder case; and more.
The Weekend Essay
[
### The Imperialist Philosopher Who Demanded the Ukraine War
](/news/the-weekend-essay/the-imperialist-philosopher-who-demanded-the-ukraine-war)
For decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission, and that destroying an independent Ukraine was necessary to fulfilling it.
By James Verini
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Our Columnists
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[
### The Musk-Trump War on Federal Employees Doesn’t Add Up
](/news/the-financial-page/the-musk-trump-war-on-federal-employees-doesnt-add-up)
_DOGE_ operatives claim that mass layoffs are necessary to prevent the U.S. government from going bankrupt. Let’s do the math.
By John Cassidy
[
### How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration
](/news/q-and-a/how-democrats-lost-their-way-on-immigration)
Untangling the realities from the rhetoric on an issue that has transformed politics across the West.
By Isaac Chotiner
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### Why Aren’t We in the Streets?
](/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/why-arent-we-in-the-streets)
On Trump the Almighty and his so-far quiescent capital.
By Susan B. Glasser
[
### What Will Democratic Resistance Look Like?
](/news/fault-lines/what-will-democratic-resistance-look-like)
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Amid the internal crisis of the Democratic Party, historical precedents can both inform and obscure our understanding of how the left might regroup.
By Jay Caspian Kang
The Screening Room
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### “I’m Not a Robot”
](https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/im-not-a-robot)
Watch the darkly comic film that won the 2025 Oscar for Best Live Action Short.
Ideas
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[
### The End of Children
](/magazine/2025/03/03/the-population-implosion)
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In the U.S. and around the world, fertility rates are plummeting. Is it a matter of economic necessity, cultural crisis, or moral decay?
By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
[
### When a Wrecked Slave Ship Is Excavated, What Comes Up?
](/magazine/2025/03/03/dredging-up-the-ghostly-secrets-of-slave-ships)
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A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.
By Julian Lucas
[
### Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars?
](/magazine/2025/02/17/can-the-human-body-endure-a-voyage-to-mars)
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In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep space will make us sick.
By Dhruv Khullar
[
### The Chat Room Behind the Pelicot Rape Trial
](/news/the-weekend-essay/coco-the-chat-room-behind-the-dominique-pelicot-rape-trial)
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For years, Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife and invited strangers to his house to rape her. He found them via an online platform called Coco.
By Katie Ebner-Landy
[
### _The New Yorker_ Turns 100
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This month marks a hundred years since the first issue of _The New Yorker_ was published, in February, 1925. Since then, the magazine has become renowned for its reporting, commentary, criticism, fiction, humor, and more. Explore a special collection of history and writing to celebrate the turn of our century.
[
](https://store.newyorker.com/)Limited-edition anniversary totes, T-shirts, hats, and more are now available in The New Yorker Store.[Browse and buy »](https://store.newyorker.com/)
From The Anniversary Issue
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[### Company Town](/magazine/2025/02/17/gary-indiana-and-the-long-shadow-of-us-steel)Â
Can a town that’s been called “the most miserable city in America” remake itself? Gary, Indiana, and the long shadow of U.S. Steel.
By Paige Williams
[
### Live from New York
](/magazine/2025/02/17/fifty-weird-years-of-saturday-night-live)
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“SNL50” delves into cast auditions, Lorne Michaels’s experiments, and more from the fifty weird years of “Saturday Night Live.”
By Vinson Cunningham
[
### Helicopter Parents
](/magazine/2025/02/17/the-long-flight-to-teach-an-endangered-ibis-species-to-migrate)
The quixotic efforts of conservationists teaching an endangered ibis species to migrate.Â
By Nick Paumgarten
[
### Sisterhood
](/magazine/2025/02/17/the-nuns-trying-to-save-the-women-on-texas-death-row)
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Nuns from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.
By Lawrence Wright
[
### Stepping Out
](/magazine/2025/02/17/high-school-band-contests-turn-marching-into-a-sport-and-an-art)
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Band kids today don’t just parade up and down the field playing fight songs. They flow across it in shifting tableaux, with elaborate themes and spandex-clad dancers.
By Burkhard BilgerPhotography by Brian Finke
[
### A Newly Discovered Poem by Robert Frost
](/books/double-take/lost-and-found-a-newly-discovered-poem-by-robert-frost)
“Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in _The New Yorker’s_ Anniversary Issue.
By Jay Parini
[
### A Visit to Madam Bedi
](/magazine/2025/02/17/a-visit-to-madam-bedi)
I was estranged from my own mother, so a friend tried to lend me his.
By Tara Westover
Puzzles & Games
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Take a break and play.Â
### The Crossword
A puzzle that ranges in difficulty, with the occasional theme.
[Solve the latest puzzle](https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/crossword/latest)
### The Mini
A bite-size crossword, for a quick diversion.
[Solve the latest puzzle](https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/mini-crossword/latest)
### Laugh Lines
Can you place the cartoons in chronological order?
[Play this week’s game](https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/laugh-lines/latest)
### Cartoon Caption Contest
We provide a cartoon, you provide a caption.
[Enter this week’s contest](https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/contest)
### Name Drop
Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?
[Play a quiz from the vault](https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/name-drop/random)
In Case You Missed It
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[Letter from Ukraine](/magazine/letter-from-ukraine)
[
Listen
](/magazine/2025/03/03/the-adventures-of-a-ukrainian-intelligence-officer)
[
The Adventures of a Ukrainian Intelligence Officer
](/magazine/2025/03/03/the-adventures-of-a-ukrainian-intelligence-officer)
Roman Chervinsky’s spycraft has been a decisive factor in Ukraine’s national defense. Why is he under house arrest in Kyiv?
By Joshua Yaffa
[Persons of Interest](/culture/persons-of-interest)
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Listen
](/culture/persons-of-interest/rodrigo-prietos-risky-directorial-debut)
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Rodrigo Prieto’s Risky Directorial Début
](/culture/persons-of-interest/rodrigo-prietos-risky-directorial-debut)
An admired cinematographer wanted to lead his own production. The project he picked was nearly impossible.
By Stephania Taladrid
[Onward and Upward with the Arts](/magazine/onward-and-upward-with-the-arts)
[
Listen
](/magazine/2025/03/03/the-flirt-behind-chicken-shop-date)
[
The Flirt Behind “Chicken Shop Date”
](/magazine/2025/03/03/the-flirt-behind-chicken-shop-date)
Amelia Dimoldenberg’s show has become one of YouTube’s more enduring hits by giving the celebrity interview a screwball spin.
By Rebecca Mead
[Our Local Correspondents](/magazine/our-local-correspondents)
[
Listen
](/magazine/2025/02/10/the-leaning-tower-of-new-york)
[
The Leaning Tower of New York
](/magazine/2025/02/10/the-leaning-tower-of-new-york)
How a luxury condo building in Manhattan went sideways.
By Eric Lach
Fiction
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[“Five Bridges”](/magazine/2025/03/10/five-bridges-fiction-colm-toibin)
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Listen
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By [Colm TĂłibĂn](/contributors/colm-toibin)
Photograph by Todd Hido for The New Yorker
She promised that the climbing would be easy.
“Even for you,” she said.
“How long?”
“An hour. Or maybe two hours. Or maybe three.”
“Give or take?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Paul had told her two weeks earlier, on their last outing to Point Reyes Station, that he was leaving, packing up.[Continue reading »](/magazine/2025/03/10/five-bridges-fiction-colm-toibin)
[This Week in Fiction](/books/this-week-in-fiction)
[](/books/this-week-in-fiction/colm-toibin-03-10-25)
[Colm TĂłibĂn on the Undocumented Irish and Writing in Real Time](/books/this-week-in-fiction/colm-toibin-03-10-25)
[The Writer’s Voice](/podcast/the-writers-voice)
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Listen
](/podcast/the-writers-voice/colm-toibin-reads-five-bridges)
[The Author Reads “Five Bridges”](/podcast/the-writers-voice/colm-toibin-reads-five-bridges)
[All fiction »](https://www.newyorker.com/fiction-and-poetry)
The Talk of the Town
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Chin Music
[
### Should Aaron Judge Get a Chinstrap?
](/magazine/2025/03/10/should-aaron-judge-get-a-chinstrap)
By Zach Helfand
Yosemite Postcard
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### A Fired Yosemite Locksmith Messages Trump from the Summit of El Capitan
](/magazine/2025/03/10/a-fired-yosemite-locksmith-messages-trump-from-the-summit-of-el-capitan)
By Brad Wieners
Red Carpet Dept.
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[
### How a Gizmo Used to Photograph Taco Ads Took Over the Red Carpet
](/magazine/2025/03/10/how-a-gizmo-once-used-to-photograph-taco-ads-took-over-the-red-carpet)
By T. M. Brown
Georgia Postcard
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### Chasing Waterfalls in the Peach State
](/magazine/2025/03/03/chasing-waterfalls-in-the-peach-state)
By Charles Bethea
Daily Cartoon
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[](https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a61043)
“Wait, are we bidding? You can’t bid on something I already bought.”
Cartoon by Brendan Loper
[This week’s cartoons »](https://www.newyorker.com/gallery/cartoons-from-the-march-10-2025-issue)
Shouts & Murmurs
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### Oddly Specific Jellycats
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By Mads Horwath
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### Join My Matreon!
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By Alyssa Brandt
[
### What Your Sweater Says About You
](/humor/shouts-murmurs/what-your-sweater-says-about-you)
By Madeline Goetz and Johnathan Appel
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### Cool Things I Was Doing When My Back Went Out
](/humor/shouts-murmurs/cool-things-i-was-doing-when-my-back-went-out)
By Dahlia Gallin Ramirez
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### You Have Reached the U.S. Government
](/magazine/2025/03/03/you-have-reached-the-us-government)
By Patricia Marx
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### New York Isn’t What It Used to Be
](/humor/shouts-murmurs/new-york-isnt-what-it-used-to-be)
By Seth Reiss