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How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It
As researchers work to make death optional, investors see a chance for huge returns, Tad Friend reports. But has the human body already reached its limits?
Today’s Mix
The E.P.A.’s Disastrous Plan to End the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
With a new proposal, the Trump Administration, which has already laid waste to dozens of programs aimed at limiting climate change, has managed to outdo itself.
The Politics of Fear
As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump made his world view plain: there was “us” and there was “them.” Once he was in the White House, the fear factor would prevail.
What Is Lost in Luka Dončić’s Glow-Up
The rebrand of the Los Angeles Laker—who appeared on the cover of Men’s Health looking lean, buff, and bronze—makes sense. That doesn’t make it less sad.
Sterling K. Brown’s Upstanding Archetype
In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the material.
The Pope’s Astronomer
Guy Consolmagno, a Jesuit from Michigan—and a meteorite expert—oversees a team of scientists employed by the Holy See, at the Vatican Observatory.
The Lede
A daily column on what you need to know.
Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma
In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.
Searching for the Children of the Disappeared
A new book examines the extraordinary decades-long campaign by Argentinean women to find their grandchildren.
Is Brazil’s Underdog Era Coming to an End?
President Donald Trump has announced a fifty-per-cent tariff on the country’s products, as retaliation for the prosecution of his political ally, Jair Bolsonaro. So far, Brazil has refused to roll over.
Should Police Officers Be More Like U.F.C. Fighters?
Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, has said that he wants to get mixed-martial-arts fighters to train his field agents. But a version of this is already happening, with law-enforcement agencies embracing Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
What to Do When the Supreme Court Rules the Wrong Way
The blows have been coming weekly, as Trump tries to ransack the Constitution. Yet recent Court history shows that what feels like the end can be a beginning.
“South Park” Skewers a Satire-Proof President
The new season première goes after Trump as never before—and solves a problem that’s plagued comedians since his first term in office.
When ICE Agents Are Waiting Outside the Courtroom
An asylum seeker and her children face the terrifying new reality of immigration hearings.
At the Edge of Life and Death in Ukraine
A new photo book by Eddy van Wessel, with nearly two hundred images taken over the course of three years, offers a visual history of the war’s devastation.
The Critics
The Enduring Power of “The Rules of the Game”
Jean Renoir’s tragic farce, from 1939, scathingly denounced French society’s frivolity amid threats of war and fascism.
Worlds in Rooms
Bodies on display, in exhibitions of the work of Sanya Kantarovsky, Lisa Yuskavage, and Johannes Vermeer.
There Is More to French Opera Than “Carmen” and “Faust”
The Bru Zane label is recording dozens of forgotten works that testify to a Romantic golden age.
Late Night’s Last Laugh
The cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” raised eyebrows, but the genre is not what it was in Johnny Carson’s heyday. What does it still have to offer us?
Williams in Williamstown
Jeremy O. Harris, at his first Williamstown Theatre Festival as creative director, turns up the heat under rare works by the great Southern playwright.
Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies
Adrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback.
What We’re Reading
A deeply researched biography of Clint Eastwood’s career that reveals fascinating truth; a biting novel that explores the wonders and limitations of technology; a history that digs into the daily lives of Renaissance luminaries to explore a tangle of delusion and fakery; and more.
Our Columnists
On Trump, Gaza, and the Perils of a Blank Check for Israel
Is the President flip-flopping on Israel's war, or just muddling through?
The Banal Provocation of Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans
The American Eagle campaign, with its presentation of Americana as a zombie slop of mustangs, denim, and good genes, is lowest-common-denominator stuff.
When the Federal Government Eats Itself
After six months of DOGE, vital institutions are in disarray as the civil service braces for new cuts.
Stacks of Cash
Presidential libraries preserve the records—and burnish the legacies—of America’s heads of state. Are they also corruption rackets?
Was the Renaissance Real?
We celebrate the period as a golden age of cultural rebirth. But two new books argue that the Renaissance, as we imagine it, is little more than myth.
Flash Fiction
A series of very short stories for the summer.
“The Grass at Airports”
In parks and gardens abundant in plants and flowers, the grass is nothing more than a backdrop.
“Double Time for Pat Hobby”
On the day that Pat met Jim Dasterson in the barrier, he had less than a dollar in one pocket and an ounce of gin in the other.
“Dedication”
“After my father stopped breathing, God bless his memory, I covered his body up in blankets—and kept studying.”
Watching the “King of the Hill” Revival from Texas
In the age of MAGA, the show’s small-town values are both a relief and slightly outdated. In the end, will we and the animated characters all live like city people?
Ideas
Israel’s Zones of Denial
Amid national euphoria over the bombing of Iran—and the largely ignored devastation in Gaza—a question lurks: What is the country becoming?
Mind the Racial Wealth Gap
Programs meant to close that disparity haven’t made a dent. Have we been focussing on the wrong things?
Is Lunch the Best Meal?
From power lunches to liquid lunches, notes on the underappreciated charms of the midday repast.
Check Your Bill
The National Restaurant Association is backing No Tax on Tips, probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage.
The Musician Bringing the Bagpipes Into the Avant-Garde
Brìghde Chaimbeul frees her instrument from the confines of kitsch.
Puzzles & Games
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