The New Yorker
Memories of Thanksgivings Abroad and In Between
A collection of stories from New Yorker writers of holiday feasts spent straddling cultures.
The Lede
Reporting and analysis on the affairs of the day.
Should U.S. Aid to Israel Be Contingent on Human Rights?
Senator Ben Cardin, the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, argues that humanitarian concerns should not hold up funding for Israel’s war effort.
The Intimate Reality of the J.F.K. Assassination
A visit to Dealey Plaza, after years of thinking and reading about the Kennedy assassination, came as a shock.
Chaos in the Cradle of A.I.
The Sam Altman saga at OpenAI underscores an unsettling truth: nobody knows what A.I. safety really means.
Javier Milei’s Free-Market Fundamentalism
Argentina’s President-elect has been compared to Donald Trump, but his radical views on the economy set him apart.
The Supreme Court’s Self-Excusing Ethics Code
Under the Court’s new rules, the Justices appear not to have made any mistakes.
The Fall of My Teen-Age Self
This particular April, I’d sworn to my mother I wasn’t smoking. Therefore: stolen cigarettes. Therefore: windowsill.
Annals of Giving Thanks
Essays from the archive on the history and spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Magical Dinners
Chang-rae Lee recalls his family’s first Thanksgiving in the U.S., combining turkey and tastes from Korea.
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Philip Deloria deconstructs the myth of the holiday and explains its true history, including the relationship between the Pilgrims and Native Americans.
Friendsgiving Will Set You Free
The point of the holiday is the people, Bryan Washington writes. Your people. Whatever that means to you.
One Family’s Perilous Escape from Gaza City
When Israel invaded Kamal Al-Mashharawi’s neighborhood, he crowded into a basement with his extended family. “The world is closing in on us,” he wrote on WhatsApp.
The Israel-Hamas War
The Making of the World’s Go-To Hostage Negotiator
How Qatar became one of the world’s most prominent mediators of hostage situations.
The Trauma of Gaza’s Doctors
Anne Taylor, the head of mission for Doctors Without Borders in Palestine, on the horrors of practicing medicine under siege.
Escalating Violence Between Israel and Lebanon
There’s a sense of history repeating itself along the border, where tens of thousands have been displaced and the civilian death toll is climbing.
The Use of Children, Hostages, and the Vulnerable in War
The war in Gaza has the feel of history sliding backward.
Joyce Carol Oates’s Relentless, Prolific Search for a Self
In more than a hundred works of fiction, Oates has investigated the question of personality—while doubting that she actually has one.
The Critics
Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” Cannot Quite Vanquish Its Subject
Joaquin Phoenix summons a general prowling the battlements of his own brain, but is Napoleon’s life just too big for any one movie?
The Best Books We Read This Week
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
André 3000 Disrupts Our Sense of Time
André Benjamin’s début solo album of deeply soothing instrumental music asks for little beyond our attention.
The Artist Making Wellness Culture Look a Little Sick
In “Needy Machines,” Ilana Harris-Babou continues her study of self-improvement, taking on everything from luxury bathrooms to health-care documents.
Why Can’t We Quit “The Morning Show”?
Apple’s glossy experiment in prestige melodrama is utterly baffling—and must-watch TV.
“Hell’s Kitchen” Brings Alicia Keys’s Musical Power to the Public
The R. & B. titan shares a fictionalized version of her coming of age.
Lahaina Hallelujah
A cartoonist reflects on his family’s roots in Maui and the devastation of the wildfire.
Dept. of Hoopla
Giving thanks for humor.
Ingredient-Substitution Guide for Thanksgiving Recipes
For one can of pumpkin purée, steal three rotting jack-o’-lanterns from your neighbors’ front steps.
The Cranberry Sauce Has Something to Say
Look, do you think I don’t see what you see? I’m repulsive. I stick out like a sore thumb. A red, wobbly sore thumb.
Similarities Between the First Thanksgiving and the First Thanksgiving I Hosted
Both gatherings involved alcohol-induced candor and the Protestant work ethic.
All the Newspapers’ Men
In Martin Baron’s “Collision of Power” and Adam Nagourney’s “The Times,” two well-known journalists turn their investigative power on their institutions—and themselves.
The A.I. Issue
The Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built
Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn. Now he worries that artificial brains are better than ours.
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
Does A.I. Lead Police to Ignore Contradictory Evidence?
Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a police investigation.
What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes
Experts have warned that realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.
A Food-Themed Holiday Gift Guide
Kitchen tools, culinary trinkets, tinned treats, dinner-party fixings, and many more curios for the person of appetites in your life.
Puzzles & Games
Take a break and play.
Name Drop: Make Me Laugh
Can you guess the identities of these nine comedy legends?
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The Kingpin Who Kidnapped Migrants for Ransom
Bayard Rustin Gets to Shine in Our Era
Can Happiness Be Taught?
A Trans Teen in an Anti-Trans State
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