people are beginning to publish their holiday gift guides, and I feel as though I have a duty, as a noted Good Gift Giver, to remind you that the best gifts are *useful.* not special! useful. not rare! useful.

had fun talking to Stephen Witt about what the data center buildout means for the planet link.newyorker.com/view/677c539...

"The noise was unholy, as if I’d opened a broom closet and found an active jet engine inside. I watched the blinking lights and the spinning of the fans." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Jennifer Lawrence has been cast in maternal roles since her teens. Now, in “Die My Love,” she is playing a mother for the first time since becoming one. Read Jia Tolentino’s new Profile of the actress: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qHU2_j

"I feel like what I saw in Cuba was definitively the end of the dream of the Cuban Revolution. For years, while Fidel was still alive, some people clung to it. ... Now it’s over." really enjoyed talking to Jon Lee Anderson for this one: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

loved this conversation between Joshua Rothman and @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on how A.I. might change the medical profession: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

"Historically, autocrats are a mirthless bunch." David Remnick on Kimmel (and Putin and Goodfellas) in tonight's newsletter: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

a helpful legal update on tariffs from @cristianfarias.com www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

I wrote a bit about the tariff chaos in today’s @newyorker.com newsletter. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Jia Tolentino explains labubu!!!! www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

I too have really enjoyed using Opal over the past year! nice one from @chaykak.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

classic @elcush.bsky.social on Prime Day: "The holiday was invented by a corporation in honor of itself, to enrich itself. It has existed for six years and is observed by tens of millions of people worldwide. I hope you are spending it with your loved ones." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED. UNPAYWALLED:

"Kassam wore pink seersucker pants and at one point booed a passing Cybertruck. As guests filtered in and out, he developed a tagline: 'The Tea Party sold out to Koch, but Trump wouldn’t sell out to ketamine.'" www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Just how bad is Donald Trump’s travel ban? In today’s daily newsletter, @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social, who covers immigration for The New Yorker, unpacks the news.

some really helpful thoughts from @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

can't not see this through the lens of The Rehearsal www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

the inaugural edition of How Bad Is It?, feat. @ronanfarrow.bsky.social subscribe to get these in your inbox: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/d...

A commencement dispatch from Jeannie Suk Gersen: “A faculty colleague near me spent the proceedings reading Montesquieu, the great theorist of the separation of powers, on his phone.” www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

"The school’s transformation in the public imagination, from bastion of élitism into a beacon of hope and dissent, requires a reality check. If the federal government decides it’s going to destroy—or severely diminish—you, it probably can." www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

“(Javert is cordyceps)”

the @newyorker.com summer culture preview just dropped www.newyorker.com/culture/goin...

"Let’s face it: for all that has been said and written and broadcast about Prevost—he was on the media shortlist for most of the past week—Leo XIV is a complete unknown." www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

a really nice dispatch from Rome by Paul Elie in tonight's @newyorker.com newsletter: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident 🔗 www.404media.co/i-loved-that...

so enjoyed this profile www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

team @dgraham.bsky.social forever!!!!! www.amazon.com/Project-How-...

Happy pub day, @dgraham.bsky.social ! From all of your friends and also extremely on brand Ben Affleck

My book THE PROJECT is out today, laying out how Project 2025 seeks to transform the federal government, American society, and your everyday life. I hope you'll give it a read www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/800230...

We’re past the point of wondering whether the Trump Administration will violate court orders, Ruth Marcus writes, in today’s daily newsletter. The pressing question is how forcefully judges will respond—and whether the Supreme Court will back them up.

"I identified and scrutinized more than fifty cases of individuals who, in recent years, had starved to death, died of dehydration, or lost their lives to related medical crises in county jails." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

On the other side of Signalgate were actual people who died in Yemen from US airstrikes. I wrote about one family who lost fifteen women and children www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

NEWS: We all know the story of the Signal groupchat fiasco. But we’re only now starting to understand what happened in the other end of it. Rozina Ali tracked down an eyewitness to one strike that killed a house full of women and children. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

lotta crossword cheaters out there ... I see you

I'm picking up a new foster later! he needs a name ... what should we call him? (the rescue tries not to duplicate names so most standard names are taken)

"Mr. Boynton’s decision to announce changes to the style guide in The New Yorker’s daily newsletter on Monday was noteworthy" 💌💌💌 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/s...

Wired continues to be just doing such an astoundingly good job on this. Tremendous reporting. Tremendous focus. They deserve a Pulitzer.

Wow. Meta taking legal steps against a new book published about the company. Has anyone seen this type of legal order before? about.fb.com/wp-content/u...

some news in tonight's edition: @newyorker.com is downcapping Internet in its style guide. long live the internet!

Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

With today’s extraordinary, televised fight between Trump and Zelensky, we all saw clearly something that has been unfolding over the past couple of weeks: the U.S. has switched sides in the war between Russia and Ukraine, @sbg1.bsky.social writes.

must-read @sbg1.bsky.social on the fight in the Oval Office: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...