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What Will Become of Pandemic Pets?

In a time of stress and isolation, we turned to them for comfort. Now it’s time to think about what owning animals really means.

Lina Khan vs. the Tech Giants

A proponent of reining in Silicon Valley has a powerful new post.

The Man Who Controls the Senate

Will Joe Manchin’s search for common ground wreck the Democrats’ agenda?

“In the Heights” and Generic Latinidad

This big film misreads the moment.

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Spotlight

Why So Many Politicians Want Paperboy Prince to Hit Them with a Pie

“Y’all haven’t seen what I do with confetti,” the candidate bent on upstaging the mayor’s race said.

Biden, Putin, and History’s Weight

At last week’s summit, Biden tried to reassert democratic values.

Jean Smart Never Went Away

The star of “Hacks” and “Mare of Easttown” discusses loss, one-liners, and forty years onscreen.

My Father’s Theorem

Sometimes, a mathematical proof is more than just a fact.

A Cop Campaigning Against the N.Y.P.D.

Edwin Raymond stumps in Brooklyn for a City Council post.

Inventing the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory

To Christopher Rufo, a term for a school of legal scholarship looked like the perfect weapon.

Janet Malcolm, Remembered by Writers

Notes on Malcolm’s legacy, from writers at and outside The New Yorker.

“Demon Slayer”: The Viral Blockbuster from Japan

How an anime franchise captured the world’s imagination.

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In Focus

The Coronavirus Crisis

Coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, from the science of vaccines to the culture of quarantine.

Racial Injustice and Policing

Black Lives Matter, police brutality, and the long history of racism in America.

Reopening and the Economy

The impact of the pandemic and the efforts at recovery.

Dept. of Returns

Stories of life after the vaccine.

From This Week’s Issue

Evan Osnos on Joe Manchin’s key vote, Margaret Talbot on the women who would be priests, Doreen St. Félix on Ziwe, and more.

June 28, 2021
Person looking at themselves in a mirror and applying makeup

“Pride and Joy,” by Nicole Rifkin.

Humor

How to Relearn How to Ride a Bike

Once you’re lurching forward, keep both eyes fixed on a spot directly ahead of your front tire.

Your Quarantine Wrapped

Number of words spoken aloud: 17.5.

Mitch McConnell Warns That Voting Bill Would Bring U.S. to Brink of Democracy

“I will not sit idly by and watch a foreign form of government sneak across our border,” the Senate Minority Leader vowed.

Fathers-in-Law: Picks from the Catalogue

A small selection of the species.

Letter to a Future Son from a Meek Son

I offer this warning that you are the inheritor of nothing in particular.

Attention, People of Earth!

Is the most powerful Thought Leader in your nation a human known as Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson? Really?

Fiction & Poetry

“Offside Constantly”

“I was afraid sometimes that there was nothing wrong with me—that I was just trying to get my parents’ minds off my brother.”

“Life”

“I always say this but it’s true, there are / so many things / I don’t understand.”

Camille Bordas on Death and Doppelgängers

The author discusses her story from the latest issue of the magazine.

“Bioluminescence”

“There’s a dark so deep beneath the sea the creatures beget their own / light.”