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Texas Primary Map: Live Election Results Vote counts from the state’s U.S. Senate primaries between the Democrats James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett, and the Republicans John Cornyn, Ken Paxton, and Wesley Hunt.

Polls are starting to close in Texas! Follow the vote counts on @newyorker.com live results map. www.newyorker.com/news/electio...

The Timeless Provocations of “Wuthering Heights” (the Novel) A great fuss surrounds Emerald Fennell’s anachronistic adaptation, but Emily Brontë’s ruthless text will always have the last word.

Thrilled to publish Radhika Jones on the discipline and perversity of Wuthering Heights (the novel!) www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

When ICE Takes Your Husband Away Manuela’s husband texted her that he’d been detained on the street by ICE. Immediately, her life in New York collapsed.

“Mami, migración got me,” Iván wrote. It was one of seventeen frantic texts...“My God.” “Noo, my love.” “Pay my phone bill.” “Please. Mami.” “Please. Mami.” “I don’t have.” “Phone signal.” “They were just outside.” “They grabbed me.” “Three of them.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The New Yorker Wins Two Polk Awards for 2025 Reporting The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson is honored for chronicling Congo’s devastating war, while Andy Kroll is recognized for a profile of the Trump official Russell Vought.

Two Polk Awards for @newyorker.com! (One shared with our friends @propublica.org.) Congrats to Jon Lee Anderson and @andykroll.bsky.social! www.newyorker.com/news/press-r...

How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests.

So many just stunning details in this piece by @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social. Read all the way to the end, which gets into the push now to denaturalize citizens. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

The Trial of Gisèle Pelicot’s Rapists United France and Fractured Her Family After fifty-one men were convicted of the crime, Pelicot became a feminist hero. But additional accusations left her children struggling to accept her new role.

Just a stunning, horrifying piece of reporting and writing by Rachel Aviv. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.

Worth re-reading, in light of the new findings by European governments on the circumstances of Navalny's death. From 2024. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else?

Looking for a weekend read? This is an astonishing story by Ava Kofman. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight The dismantling of the Washington Post is a choice, not a necessity, and the blame lies with Jeff Bezos.

In @newyorker.com Daily newsletter, David Remnick weighs in on Bezos dismantling the @washingtonpost. “I feel like someone forced to watch an arsonist torch the house he grew up in.” www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Ruth Marcus tries to understand how it came to this point for the @washingtonpost.com. "The staff, meanwhile, became increasingly concerned that Lewis was offering corporate word salad in place of a vision to address the Post’s decline." www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Minneapolis Is Standing Up for America From the daily newsletter: the killing of Alex Pretti has ignited a public outcry, and, perhaps, an awakening of national conscience.

“The invasion of an American city by a federal occupying force might finally have stirred the conscience of the people.” I reflect on democracy, authoritarianism, and Minneapolis. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

The Battle for Minneapolis As Donald Trump brings his retribution to a liberal city, citizens, protesters, and civic leaders try to protect one another.

Came back to the city that raised me. www.newyorker.com/news/dispatc...

Witnessing Another Public Killing in Minneapolis Videos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power.

Our ability to participate in witnessing, to corroborate each other’s commonsense, to assure one another that, no, you are not crazy, they did just “fucking kill that guy,” is a threat to the Administration’s assumption of total power… www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

The Battle for Minneapolis As Donald Trump brings his retribution to a liberal city, citizens, protesters, and civic leaders try to protect one another.

“We know y’all cold, y’all not from here, get your ass home,” a demonstrator yelled. “Leave!” shouted another. The Battle for Minneapolis www.newyorker.com/news/dispatc...

David Haglund, senior editor @newyorker.com, takes on @mayor.nyc.gov on behalf of all NYC parents. Give the kids a real snow day! www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

The Mayor of an Occupied City Jacob Frey, of Minneapolis, is governing a city under siege by its own federal government.

"This is wild," he said. “This is wild.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

A Massacre in Mashhad Under the cover of an internet blackout, Iranian security forces killed hundreds of demonstrators. Only now are details of the carnage starting to emerge.

Incredibly harrowing report here. www.newyorker.com/news/as-told...

Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News The network’s new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump.

Since we’re looking back to 2016…”By the time Trump won the 2016 election, Weiss, who cried when she heard the result, was in something of a rut. She was recently divorced, editing book reviews, and occasionally doing video hits…” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How Colombia’s President Reached an Uneasy Détente with Donald Trump After the attack in Venezuela, its neighbor state reckons with U.S. aggression.

Jon Lee Anderson had a fascinating conversation in Bogota with Colombian president Gustavo Petro. “We’ve survived by moving and living clandestinely our whole lives,” he said. “A person like me has to know how to disguise himself.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Denmark Is Sick of Being Bullied by Trump The U.S., once Denmark’s closest ally, is threatening to steal Greenland and attacking the country’s wind-power industry. Is this a permanent breakup?

Since 9/11, Denmark has adhered to so-called Super-Atlanticism, which makes alignment with the U.S. its foreign-policy priority. By Margaret Talbot in @newyorker.com. Under Threat www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Oasis

The wonders of @newyorker.com archives, which is now fully digitized. A 1960 Talk of the Town that featured a young Marty Supreme. www.newyorker.com/magazine/196...

Nicolás Maduro’s Accelerating Revolution Venezuela’s President has outmaneuvered his opponents. Can he survive an economy in free fall?

Want to understand Nicolas Maduro and his rise to power? Worth reading Jon Lee Anderson's 2017 profile for @newyorker.com. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

What Zohran Mamdani and Michael Bloomberg Have in Common As mayors, the socialist and the plutocrat each embody outsized ideas of the city—and distinct forms of capital.

Molly Fischer is writing a column on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s first 100 days. Here’s her first. www.newyorker.com/news/new-yor...

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

So utterly heartbroken to hear the news that Tatiana Schlossberg has died. Here is her remarkable essay again. Prayers for her family. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Subway Riders Master The Art of the Swipe; Fewer MetroCard Glitches Reported As Public and Transit System Adapt (Published 2004)

The bell tolls for the metrocard! From 2004: my ode to the art of the metrocard swipe. www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/n...

The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2025 Consider this your personal year-end reading list, one that we hope provides hours of pleasure.

I reflect on the death of reading and @newyorker.com’s next 100 years, while delivering our annual top 25 stories list. Happy reading! www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

Trump Dishonors the Kennedy Center A memorial to John F. Kennedy and his respect for the freedom of the arts has been renamed for a man with authoritarian instincts.

Remnick: “We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com.

This is big and a very long time coming! Your TBR pile just got 100 years longer. www.newyorker.com/news/press-r...

Becoming a Centenarian Like The New Yorker, I was born in 1925. Somewhat to my surprise, I decided to keep a journal of my hundredth year.

Happy 100th birthday to Tad Tomkins! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Oh wow! Thrilled to make this list. Thanks @bookcritics.bsky.social!