Pregnancy is not a rare condition—millions of people get pregnant each year—yet those who experience it are frequently told that there’s not enough research to guarantee that a medicine is safe. Isn’t there a better way?

A new survey found that more Americans side with Palestinians than with Israel—a first. In a seismic shift, a majority also oppose sending more aid to Israel, long the closest U.S. ally in the Middle East.

The comedian Fred Armisen’s new album, “100 Sound Effects,” was released last Friday. On a recent episode of #NewYorkerRadio, Armisen joined Michael Schulman for an auditory tour of New York City. Listen here.

What would it mean for the Democrats to “win” the government shutdown? “Maybe winning, here, is showing a pulse,” @jonallsop.bsky.social writes.

Human hair, horse hair, pine needles, seeds, animal bone, cherry tree branch: these are among the items Adebunmi Gbadebo uses in her creations. Read a review of the artist’s début solo show.

One reason that Trump’s claims that Tylenol causes autism are difficult to dispel is that he makes them sound certain. Doctors, in contrast, tend to say that the strongest research does not show a link between the drug and the condition.

In “The Smashing Machine,” a new bio-pic about the former mixed-martial-arts star Mark Kerr, Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson does the substantial work of bringing a noteworthy character to life. “It’s a performance of flair and precision,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.

Recently, Dhruv Khullar travelled to Harvard to witness a face-off between a new A.I. model named CaBot and an expert diagnostician. Both correctly solved a patient's case. What does this mean for the future of medicine?

From roles in “Better Call Saul,” “Hacks,” and “Palm Royale,” Carol Burnett is having something of a late-career resurgence. But the 92-year-old comedy legend has already influenced generations of performers. Rachel Syme Profiles the icon.

In Barry Bitt’s latest Kvetchbook, Donald Trump sees the enemy, and it is U.S. See more from New Yorker Humor: nyer.cm/1sW7dwL

On the case of the Maine milk-truck drivers who, for want of a comma, won an appeal against their employer, Oakhurst Dairy.

About a fifth of American adults say they get their news primarily from TikTok. Now Donald Trump is putting the wildly popular app in the hands of his allies. “If I could, I’d make it 100 percent MAGA-related,” he said.

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A long life is a gift. But will we really be grateful for it?

Between grade inflation and A.I., college seems to have gotten easier. What does that mean for students, and for higher education generally?

Rarely seen photos that painstakingly document the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968 serve as a reminder of the limitations of authoritarian solutions.

Tim-Berners Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, is now building tools that aim to resist big-tech platforms, give users control over their own data, and prevent A.I. from hollowing out the open web.

Florida has more than 1.6 million Cuban American residents, and 68 per cent of them voted for Trump; even as the President enacts sweeping deportations, many hope he will bring about regime change on the island.

“One Battle After Another,” “as great an American movie as I’ve seen this year, doesn’t simply meet the moment,” justincchang.bsky.social writes. With extraordinary imagination, “it forges a moment all its own, and insists that better ones could still lie ahead.”

Tina Fey, who played the Carol Burnett part in the recent Netflix miniseries “The Four Seasons,” described Burnett’s ability to enliven even the flattest turns of phrase as “Oh, you think there’s one laugh in this line? There are five. Watch.”

“I had always believed myself to be pretty sanguine at the thought of my own death—I’d had a good long life, done good work, experienced true love, was generally A+ lucky—but now all I wanted was to get the hell out of there.” A new essay by Ann Patchett.

Why is Donald Trump turning on his ideological ally Narendra Modi? @ichotiner.bsky.social talks to Milan Vaishnav, an expert on the India-America relationship, about why Trump has soured on India.

American officials may have imagined that the images that came out of the Vietnam War would be heroic. Of course, the opposite was the case.

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, is the distant cause of everything from Amazon to A.I. slop. In the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can save the online world.

At universities today, “students can have chatbots do their work for them, teachers can give that work inflated grades, and everyone can feel good while learning very little,” Joshua Rothman writes. Does college need to get harder?

A psychotherapist decided to treat ChatGPT as if it were his patient. The experience left him “alternately gratified and horrified,” and, above all, unable to pull himself away.

In Putin-era Russia, state encroachment in the media eventually led to a culture of self-censorship, in which outright bans or other repressive measures were relatively rare. Is the U.S. headed down a similar path?

“I think something’s locked in with young people, like, the culture of cinema. It’s super encouraging.” The filmmaker Richard Linklater discusses his two new films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague,” and staying true to his creative vision.

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Ten of @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social’s favorite horror films that evoke fear and foreboding—without all the blood and guts.

Breakfast is a smoothie with protein powder, kale, wheatgrass, honey, a banana, two AA batteries, and a few pumps of WD-40. Lunch is a lie. New Yorker Humor presents a day in the life of R.F.K., Jr.

“In the punt on the river in the cave, beneath the dim light of glowing worms, it was thoughts of my own death that consumed me.” Ann Patchett reflects on a trip she took after losing her mother-in-law, a close friend, and her dog.

A psychotherapist treated an A.I. chatbot as if it were one of his patients. What it confessed should worry us all.

Sterlin Harjo’s new series, “The Lowdown,” is a more conventional outing than his landmark show, “Reservation Dogs.” It hews closer to a sun-drenched “Fargo,” adhering to the beats of a traditional crime drama—albeit a stylish one, Inkoo Kang writes.

“For decades, Cubans saw the United States as a kind of promised land," Jon Lee Anderson writes. “These days, those who come to the U.S. can find that it feels distressingly like what they left behind.”

Bad Bunny “is probably the most important musician in the world right now—the person future generations will point to when they talk about what the early 2020s sounded like,” Kelefa Sanneh writes.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s electrifying new action thriller, “One Battle After Another,” is a father-daughter epic, with an unusually personal gush of feeling, @justincchang.bsky.social writes.

The campaign to force TikTok to sell or shutter its U.S. platform started out as an effort to counter Chinese influence and power. It’s ending up as an exercise in crony capitalism and political power-grabbing, johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

A cartoon by Henry Martin, from 1993. #NewYorkerCartoons

By inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee unleashed everything from A.I. slop to tech monopolies. Can the 70-year-old computer scientist rescue his creation from the forces that now dominate it?

Carol Burnett is roundly considered, as Amy Poehler puts it, an “unproblematic fave,” whose status as a national treasure is without controversy. Burnett prefers things that way. Read Rachel Syme’s Profile of the 92-year-old comedy legend.

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In a new Personal History, Ann Patchett goes on a planned trip after the loss of three loved ones—and grapples with thoughts of her own death.

Since 2021, an estimated 18 per cent of Cubans—as many as two million residents—have left. Many of these migrants once regarded the U.S. as a haven. Not anymore.

Bringing the U.S. arm of TikTok into the MAGA fold seems like part of Donald Trump’s grand project to concentrate power and rout his perceived enemies, @johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

Eric Adams’s exit from the New York mayoral race will please the “powerful and deep-pocketed opponents” of Zohran Mamdani, who have been trying to consolidate the field against the young socialist upstart, Eric Lach writes.

“The roster of forgettable, failed, crooked, and compromised New York City mayors is a long one, and yet, even in that unproud tradition, Eric Adams will stand out for some time.” Eric Lach writes about Adams’s exit from the mayoral race.

“Doomscroll,” a small but influential YouTube interview show created by the artist and researcher Joshua Citarella, hosts guests who typically come from the further reaches of leftist political theory and punditry.

At 21, Catherine Leroy saved up to buy a Leica and a one-way ticket to Saigon—and became one of the most celebrated and fearless photojournalists of the Vietnam War.

“The essay-writing habits of my school days have never left me.” Zadie Smith shares a writing tip she’s used for decades.