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THE TAIL END

Sloane Crosley on what we lose when we lose a pet.

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ABOVE THE FOLD

Essential reading for today.


HOW “INDUSTRY” MADE PRESTIGE TV FOR THE TIKTOK ERA



The show is poised as the inheritor of the prestige TV mantle, but it doesn’t
quite look or act like what we’ve come to expect from the genre.

By Kyle Chayka


WHAT TIM WALZ BRINGS TO KAMALA HARRIS’S CAMPAIGN TO BEAT DONALD TRUMP



The Minnesota governor with a progressive agenda becomes the Democratic
Vice-Presidential nominee after capturing the Zeitgeist with a single word.

By Peter Slevin


A SUMMER OF HOPE AND DESPAIR IN TBILISI



Georgians are bracing for a crucial election this October. Will the opposition
stave off the country’s turn to Russian-style authoritarianism?

By Nadia Beard


IN THE AGE OF A.I., WHAT MAKES PEOPLE UNIQUE?



More than ever, we’re challenged to define what’s valuable about being human.

By Joshua Rothman
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WHAT DOES ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., ACTUALLY WANT?

The third-party Presidential candidate has a troubled past, a shambolic
campaign, and some surprisingly good poll numbers.

By Clare Malone
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American Chronicles


PROMISED LAND

After the Supreme Court ruled in favor of tribal interests, suddenly nearly half
of the state of Oklahoma was Native territory. Now, the Cherokee Nation and
other tribes are dealing with a new world of sovereignty.

By Rachel Monroe
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THE POLITICAL SCENE


VENEZUELA’S MOMENT OF RECKONING



Nicolás Maduro’s claim to have won the Presidential election has further
inflamed the nation’s contest between democracy and authoritarianism.

By Jon Lee Anderson


THE SUPREME COURT NEEDS FIXING, BUT HOW?



President Biden has proposed radical changes to the Court. Reviewing them is a
reminder of why reform is so hard, despite dissatisfaction and a wealth of
ideas.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin


DOES KAMALA HARRIS NEED A LATINO CAMPAIGN?



Republicans have offered a different approach—speaking to Latinos the same way
they do to everyone else.

By Geraldo Cadava


J. D. VANCE AND THE RIGHT’S CALL TO HAVE MORE BABIES



Pronatalism has much in common with some of Vance’s views: it typically combines
concerns about falling birth rates with anti-immigration and anti-feminist
ideas.

By Margaret Talbot
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A Reporter at Large


NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

The life of Yahya Sinwar, the newly appointed political leader of Hamas.

By David Remnick
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IN THE DARK

In Season 3, Madeleine Baran investigates the killing of twenty-four civilians
in Haditha, Iraq, and asks why no one was held accountable for the crime.
Subscribers get early access.


EPISODE 1: THE GREEN GRASS

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A man in Haditha, Iraq, has a request for the In the Dark team: Can you
investigate how my family was killed?


EPISODE 2: I HAVE QUESTIONS

ListenListen

A trip to a Marine Corps archive reveals a clue about something that the U.S.
military is keeping secret.


EPISODE 3: SOUNDS LIKE MURDER

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We travel around the U.S. to find the Marines who were on the ground in Haditha
on the day of the killings.


EPISODE 4: WHAT THEY SAW

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Two conflicting stories about what happened that day emerge—one from the Marines
involved in the killings, and another from a very different perspective.

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Profiles


THE TWIN TOWERS TIGHTROPE WALKER

Fifty years ago today, New York’s morning radio announced that a man was walking
across a tightrope strung between the Twin Towers—“right at the tippy top,” a
quarter of a mile in the air, with no net below. The French high-wire artist
Philippe Petit was just twenty-four years old at the time, and dressed like a
cat burglar, down to his black wire-walking slippers. His stunt—grandiose,
high-stakes, and illegal—was dubbed the “artistic crime of the century.” Gwen
Kinkead’s Profile of Petit, from 1987, reveals a gnomic, beauty-oriented man
drawn to the wire as a place to be by himself. In the sky, he said, “I am alone
and in control.”

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OUR COLUMNISTS


TRUMP’S DANGEROUS EMBRACE OF BITCOIN AND THE CRYPTO BROS



Having suffered a series of legal and regulatory setbacks in recent years, the
cryptocurrency industry is pouring millions of dollars into the upcoming
election. To what end?

By John Cassidy


WHY I FINALLY QUIT SPOTIFY

ListenListen

The platform interface has gradually made it harder to find the music I want to
listen to. With the latest app updates, I’d had enough.

By Kyle Chayka


TRUMP’S RACIST ATTACK ON KAMALA HARRIS WAS NO ACCIDENT



Is it, perhaps, a sign that the Vice-President’s swift rise in the polls has him
panicked?

By Susan B. Glasser


THE POLITICS OF “WEIRD”



Kamala Harris’s campaign has smartly positioned her as the normal candidate. But
disagreements and distractions lie ahead.

By Jay Caspian Kang
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A Reporter at Large


HEZBOLLAH AND ISRAEL’S DEADLY FACE-OFF

Months of fighting at the border threaten to ignite an all-out conflict that
could devastate the region.

By Dexter Filkins
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THE CRITICS

Under Review


PETE ROSE AND THE COMPLICATED LEGACY OF CINCINNATI BASEBALL



The culture that protected Rose from the fallout of his excesses did not extend
the same favor to the team’s most talented Black players.

By Brandon Harris
Cultural Comment


HOW “THE BOYFRIEND” DISTILLS GAY ROMANCE



The Japanese dating show captures friendship, heartbreak, and the perils of
having a hot roommate.

By Simon Wu
Photo Booth


BOYS ON THEIR BIKES



In the early nineties, the photographer Stefan Ruiz captured lowrider culture in
Northern California.

By Geraldo Cadava
On Television


JAKE GYLLENHAAL, AND HIS EYEBROWS, ON TRIAL IN “PRESUMED INNOCENT”



Ruth Negga and Peter Sarsgaard also star in this adaptation of the 1987 Scott
Turow novel.

By Vinson Cunningham
The Front Row


THE MACABRE IRONIES OF “TRAP”



Lurking beneath M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller are the commonplace horrors of
family life.

By Richard Brody
On Television


“HOUSE OF THE DRAGON” STILL HASN’T CAUGHT FIRE



The HBO show’s latest season finale reaffirms Rhaenyra’s right to rule—but her
mode of noble restraint, however admirable in a leader, is lethal in a
protagonist.

By Inkoo Kang
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WHAT WE’RE READING THIS WEEK

A novel that is both a hilarious picaresque and a series of meditations on
family, colonialism, and the history of soccer; a profoundly intimate biography
that traces the life of the revelatory gay poet Thom Gunn; a journalistic
chronicle that attempts to portray the ways in which China’s transformations of
the past thirty years manifest on a personal scale; and more.

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DEPT. OF SUMMER GAMES


HIGH-PRESSURE HOPE AT THE PARIS OLYMPICS



Cheers, howls, and the occasional boo have brought joyous cacophony to the City
of Light.

By Anthony Lane


WHO GETS TO PLAY IN WOMEN’S LEAGUES?



What a blood test taught me about testosterone, athleticism, and sex.

By S. C. Cornell


A UNIVERSE IN TEN SECONDS



At the Paris Olympics, the drama of the women’s hundred-metre races culminated
in swift, decisive endings.

By Hanif Abdurraqib


ARMAND DUPLANTIS, THE TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET OF THE POLE VAULT



The American Swedish heartthrob showed his mastery of the strangest of sports,
setting another new record.

By Sam Knight
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Personal History


MY MOTHER, THE GAMBLER

For a long time, I didn’t know that what my mother was doing—playing the
so-called Italian lottery—was illegal. She certainly didn’t look like a
criminal.

By Victor Lodato
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IDEAS


TWO PATHS FOR JEWISH POLITICS



In America, Jews pioneered a way of life that didn’t rely on the whims of the
powerful. Now it’s under threat.

By Corey Robin


HOW A RARE DISORDER MAKES PEOPLE SEE MONSTERS

ListenListen

A mysterious neurological condition makes faces look grotesque—and sheds new
light on the inner workings of the brain.

By Shayla Love


REIMAGINING CHINA IN TOKYO

ListenListen

A new community of expats is opening bookstores, attending lectures, and
imagining alternatives to Xi from the relative safety of Japan.

By Chang Che


SHOULD WE ABOLISH PRISONS?

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Our carceral system is characterized by frequent brutality and ingrained
indifference. Finding a better way requires that we freely imagine alternatives.

By Adam Gopnik
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Books


HOW CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM WAS BORN AGAIN

Nearly a century ago, a single trial seemed to shatter the movement’s place in
America. It’s returned in a new form—but for old reasons.

By Michael Luo
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PERSONS OF INTEREST

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GILLIAN ANDERSON’S SEX EDUCATION

By Rebecca Mead
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ISABELLA DUCROT IS FLOWERING IN HER NINETIES

By Rebecca Mead


COLE ESCOLA EMERGES FROM THE “GAY SHADOWS”

By Julian Lucas


MDOU MOCTAR’S GUITAR-BENDING CRY FOR JUSTICE

By Hanif Abdurraqib
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Annals of Crime


BLOOD RELATIVES

For decades, questions have circled the Whitehouse Farm murders. The British
justice system has made it extraordinarily difficult to get definitive answers.

By Heidi Blake
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PUZZLES & GAMES

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Personal History

Under the Bridge of Sighs
On watching—and rewatching—“A Little Romance,” George Roy Hill’s late-seventies
classic teen-age love story.
By David Gilbert
News Desk

Evan Gershkovich Is Finally Coming Home
In a multinational prisoner exchange, the Wall Street Journal reporter was
freed, after being detained for more than a year in Russian jail.
By Joshua Yaffa
Letter from Washington
Listen
Inside the Trump Plan for 2025
A network of well-funded far-right activists is preparing for the former
President’s return to the White House.
By Jonathan Blitzer
Kitchen Notes
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The Annual Disappointments of Strawberry Season
What to do with fruit that can’t perform solo.
By Ruby Tandoh


FICTION


“CLAY”


By Caleb Crain
Illustration by Daniele Castellano
The county had recently put in a light at the intersection of 14 and 273,
because of all the semis that were coming through. The Old Spot was a little
south of that. It was a bar in what had once been a Mexican place, and a big
wooden board with the old menu, painted by hand, was still standing in the empty
lot beside it.

When Jane drove by, on her way home, she was pretty sure she saw her husband’s
truck.Continue reading »
This Week in Fiction

Caleb Crain on Whether Violence Always Wins
The Writer’s Voice
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THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Switcheroo Dept.



KAMALA HARRIS AND THE UNDERSTUDY EFFECT

By Zach Helfand
The Pictures



ELIZABETH BANKS LIKES MAKEUP THAT SMELLS LIKE HER GRANDMA

By Jennifer Wilson
Up in the Air



PHILIPPE PETIT THINKS YOU SHOULD LOOK UP

By Bob Morris
Here To There Dept.



THE PODCAST SHORTER THAN YOUR SUBWAY RIDE, RECORDED ON YOUR SUBWAY RIDE

By Dan Greene
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DAILY CARTOON

“The question on every investor’s mind: Is this a bear market, or just another
bear tossed out the back of a third-party candidate’s car?”
Cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson


This week’s cartoons »


SHOUTS & MURMURS

Cartoons, comics, and other funny stuff. Sign up for the Humor newsletter.


“ME, LANIA”: A FIRST LADY’S MEMOIR

By Paul Rudnick


CAPITALISM IS RUNNING OUT OF FLAVORS

By Teresa Wong


WHAT A NERVOUS FLIER HEARS

By Matt Porter


MY NEW THING

By Riane Konc


HUMAN RECALL ANNOUNCEMENT

By Evan Waite and River Clegg


WORRIED ABOUT THE ELECTION? APPLY FOR CITIZENSHIP NOW!

By Wendi Aarons and Johanna Gohmann
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