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David Rohde on the Senate testimony of the intelligence chiefs, Dan Coats, Gina Haspel, Christopher Wray, and the possible long-term...

Masha Gessen writes about President Donald Trump’s insistence on funding for his proposed wall along the border with Mexico and what it...

Bernard Avishai on the Israeli writer Amoz Oz, who died in December and was the author of books including “My Michael” and “A Tale of...

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about the Democratic Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she...

Coralie Kraft writes about the photographer Matthew Genitempo’s photo series “Jasper,” which chronicles the lives of people living in the...

Andy Borowitz jokes about the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, skipping the middleman, President Trump, and negotiating directly with...

Katie Barsotti humorously imagines meal-kit recipes for people who cannot cook.

Anthony Lane reviews Julien Landais’s “The Aspern Papers,” starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and a revival of Jacques Rivette’s “The Nun,”...

John Cassidy writes about this week’s jobs report, which shows some surprising changes in the unemployment rate that have benefitted...

Richard Brody recommends the George Lucas film “American Graffiti,” a coming-of-age film, from 1973, that directly preceded “Star Wars.”

Eric Lach writes about the latest negotiations over a government shutdown that was initiated by President Trump two weeks ago.

Louisa Thomas on the N.B.A. All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard’s first return to San Antonio since the Spurs traded him to the Toronto...

This week’s New Yorker Radio Hour presents live interviews from the 2018 New Yorker Festival with Janet Mock, Chris Hayes, and Boots Riley.

Susan B. Glasser joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what’s ahead for Trump and the Republican Party in the New Year.

Charles Bethea speaks with a furloughed federal contractor for the National Park Service about the ongoing government shutdown and its...

The writer Dayna Evans and the illustrator Jason Adam Katzenstein humorously depict the subway ads for several puzzling, failed business...

Ivan Ehlers’s Daily Cartoon has nothing to do with “Bird Box.”

Doreen St. Félix reviews the new singing competition “The Masked Singer,” on Fox, in which the contestants hide their bodies and disguise...

Sara K. Runnels makes a humorous list of aquatic-wildlife-inspired dating terms.

Susan Glasser on the yearly wave of optimism known January Effect and the difficulty of maintaining a sense of possibility in the Trump era.

Sarah Larson on the BBC Radio 3 series “Slow Radio,” which features luscious sounds from the natural world alongside human voices that...

Kathryn Moeller writes on how the international development strategy of investing in girls and women instead of men does little to...

Isaac Chotiner interviews the comedian Jena Friedman, whose standup special “Soft Focus” will air on Adult Swim later this month, about...

At Danny Bowien’s new Brooklyn outpost, the loud music, the bright lights, and the electrically flavored food are sometimes jarring,...

Osita Nwanevu on the first day of the new Congress, featuring several Democrats toting children and a media frenzy surrounding the new...

Robin Wright on Netflix’s decision to pull an episode of Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” in which the comedian criticized the Saudi royal...

Simon Parkin writes on the latest installment of Charlie Brooker’s Netflix series “Black Mirror“: an choose-your-own-adventure episode...

Troy Patterson writes on the Netflix series “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” which features the author of “The Life-Changing Magic of...

Olivia de Recat and Julia Edelman illustrate a humorous comparison of boys dated in one’s twenties and those dated in middle school.

Nicholas Lemann writes on the differences between Dick Cheney’s actual political career and his depiction in the movie “Vice,” directed...

Alexandra Schwartz recommends “The Jungle,” a piece of immersive theatre created by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, based on a refugee camp...

John Cassidy writes about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s entry into the 2020 Democratic Presidential primary.

Eric Lach on Nancy Pelosi, who on Thursday was was sworn in as the Speaker of the House of the hundred and sixteenth Congress.

Farley Katz’s Daily Cartoon visits the new Congress.

Ian Crouch writes on Bob Einstein, who died on Wednesday, and on his performances as the hapless stuntman Super Dave Osborne and, later,...

Amanda Petrusich writes about Taylor Swift’s new Netflix special, “Taylor Swift: The Reputation Concert Tour.”

Riane Konc humorously conjures situations in which the good news might ameliorate the bad news.