The New Yorker Skip to main content The New Yorker Newsletter Search Open Navigation Menu The Latest News Books & Culture Fiction & Poetry Humor & Cartoons Magazine Puzzles & Games Video Podcasts Goings On Shop Breaking Ranks Gadi Eisenkot, a former military chief, is seeking to replace Benjamin Netanyahu with a politics of service, reform, and national repair. His candidacy has been shaped by the death of his son in Gaza and by a pledge to restore Israel’s liberal democracy. Yet amid Gaza’s devastation and rising settler violence in the West Bank, David Remnick reports, his vision of change has clear limits. Listen Today’s Mix Which Way Should the Democratic Party Go Now? Listen It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging? By Benjamin Wallace-Wells John Leguizamo Is a Noble Fellow Listen The “Ice Age” actor steals Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” as a loyal swineherd to Matt Damon’s Odysseus. Back in New York, he bought the director a two-thousand-year-old thank-you gift. By Michael Schulman LeBron James: An Odyssey Listen Tell the old story for our modern times. By Louisa Thomas “Padam Padam” Separates the Party People from the Homebodies Listen Kylie Minogue’s 2023 hit belongs to a category of solid, danceable pop music that barely penetrates the eardrums of self-professed thirtysomething old folks. By Lauren Michele Jackson Pop Music Steve Lacy’s Modern Love Songs His new album, “Oh Yeah?,” marries the offline charms of nineties R. & B. with the disaffection of a life lived through a screen. By Amanda Petrusich Listen The Lede A daily column on what you need to know. The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity Listen How much of the former Senate candidate’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war? By Jasper Craven “No One Knows When It Will End”: A Doctor on the Ebola Emergency Listen Health-care workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are fighting the third-largest outbreak in history—and trying not to get infected themselves. By Jason Liebowitz Maine’s Mad Scramble to Replace Graham Platner Listen The state’s Democratic primary was dominated by an unlikely left-wing insurgent—it became a three-week sprint for Party insiders to select the next best thing. By Jason Zengerle The End of the Aqueduct Racetrack Listen The closure of the scrappy New York landmark is just one of the signs that U.S. horse racing is running out of track. By Rebecca Egan McCarthy The Divine Red-Carpet Looks of the “Odyssey” Press Tour Listen Zendaya, with the help of the unerring instincts of her stylist Law Roach, led the way as she and her castmates put on a goddess-themed celebration of high fashion. By Rachel Syme Trump’s War on Journalists Listen The recent subpoenas of reporters make clear that the President is trying to threaten the press. Few protections are in place to stop him. By Ruth Marcus The New Yorker Interview Gregg Araki Thinks It’s Good to Get Your Heart Broken The director of “I Want Your Sex” discusses whether Gen Z is having enough of it, casting Charli XCX and Johnny Knoxville, and the importance of “weird, scary, confusing experiences.” By Holden Seidlitz Sale in The New Yorker Store! For a limited time, save up to 40% off select items. Browse and buy » The Critics The Current Cinema The Kinky Comedy of “I Want Your Sex” Listen In Gregg Araki’s film, a B.D.S.M. workplace relationship opens up a cross-generational debate about carnal mores. By Justin Chang Books The Men Who Made Theory French Listen French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side. By Dayna Tortorici The Front Row “Lost Chapters” Weaves Literary Mysteries Into Family Bonds Listen The Venezuelan director Lorena Alvarado’s first feature, starring her own relatives in a fictional drama, connects a young woman’s homecoming and her artistic ambitions. By Richard Brody The Theatre Jane Wickline Is Down to Clown in “Dukes” Listen The “S.N.L.” cast member partners with Liva Pierce in a musical revue about best friends with bad jobs and no girlfriends. By Emily Nussbaum On Television Welcome to the Age of Broke TV Listen Soulless moguls and wealth porn are out. Amid a real-life economic downturn, the greatest shows of 2026—from “Beef” to “The Comeback”—are all about scraping by. By Inkoo Kang Photo Booth The White House Press Corps in the Second Trump Era Listen Kent Nishimura’s photographs capture the backstage labor that allows the Trump show to go on. By Katy Waldman Photography by Kent Nishimura Have confidential information to share with our newsroom? Send us a tip » What We’re Reading A microbiologist’s wide-ranging meditation on what it means to be biologically “fit” in Western society today; an ambitious novel springs from a moment of apparent inhuman cruelty; and more. Songs of Summer A series on music and memory. “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” Listen This 2003 song by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett was part of a wave of hits that envisioned an escape to the seaside. By Kelefa Sanneh “Hold On” Listen In 1990, Wilson Phillips, three daughters of rock royalty, released a song so wholesome and unguarded that it could disarm even the angstiest teen. By Naomi Fry “No Letting Go” Listen To a young d.j. in 2003, Wayne Wonder’s dancehall anthem seemed like a beacon from a better world. By Hua Hsu “I Gotta Feeling” Listen More than a decade and a half later, the Black Eyed Peas’ 2009 earworm sounds like one of the last gasps of the monoculture. By Jia Tolentino “Bad Moon Rising” Listen To an eleven-year-old, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 hit sounded like it came from somewhere distant, deep, and haunted. By Richard Brody Annals of Justice How a Chinese Immigrant Driver Got Entangled in a Drug Bust In early 2025, a man from Queens arranged to pick up a passenger in New York’s North Country. He’s been in jail upstate ever since. By Jennifer Gonnerman Listen Our Columnists Critic’s Notebook Whoopi Goldberg Was and Always Will Be the Whole Show Listen Her eponymous one-woman show was the seed of her Hollywood stardom, which a new revival now frames as the source of something matrilineal, passed down to two generations of Black actresses. By Doreen St. Félix Open Questions Should We Do More to Fight Lookism? Listen Discrimination against the unattractive is widespread—and widely tolerated. By Joshua Rothman Progress Report Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea Listen The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system. By Jessica Winter Global Notes Marco Rubio Takes Aim at Globalists and the Left Listen Primary among the Secretary of State’s targets is the International Criminal Court. By Ishaan Tharoor The Weekend Essay The Rise of the “Scenario,” a Trendy Way of Forecasting our Dystopian Future In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus Listen Ideas Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die Listen When cultural preservationists cast every extinction as murder, they can ignore speakers’ decisions—and the costs of keeping a fading tongue alive. By Nikhil Krishnan Our Plastic-Surgery Nightmare Listen As cosmetic procedures become both more invisible and more extreme, our connection to reality is fraying. By Jia Tolentino Can A.I. Keep a Parent Alive? You can now make a virtual replica of a loved one. The question is what it can give you in return. Illustration by Gaia Alari Text by Sam Wolson Should You Recline Your Airplane Seat? Listen In many ways, a plane in flight is an orderly little universe. When it comes to seat-reclining, howe