The New Yorker
This Is What the Twenty-fifth Amendment Was Designed For
If Joe Biden doesn’t willingly resign, Jeannie Suk Gersen writes, there’s another solution, which would allow Democrats to unite around a new incumbent.
Above the Fold
Essential reading for today.
Nate Cohn Explains How Bad the Latest Polling Is for Joe Biden
The Times’ chief political analyst reflects on whether it’s still possible for the President to launch a comeback, and what the polls can tell us about other Democratic Presidential candidates.
Learned Hand’s Spirit of Liberty
Eighty years ago, Americans embraced a new definition of their common faith. “The spirit of liberty,” a then little-known judge said, “is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.”
A Holocaust Scholar Meets with Israeli Reservists
Omer Bartov on his experience speaking with right-wing students who had just returned from military service in Gaza.
The Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling Is a Victory for Donald Trump
The conservative Justices gutted the January 6th case—and have made it harder to prosecute any President.
“Kaho”
He may have been patiently waiting, for the longest time, for me to show up in front of him, she thought. Like an enormous spider waiting for its prey in the dark.
Britain Awaits a Wipeout Election
After fourteen years of Conservative rule, how will Labour pick up the pieces?
Reporting on Kamala Harris
The Vice-President is a top contender to replace Joe Biden, should he withdraw from the race.
The Fake Oilman
Alan Todd May passed himself off as an oil magnate, insinuated himself into West Palm Beach high society, and conned people out of millions.
The Fiction Issue
“Opening Theory”
Looking over at her, he starts to smile again—revising, she thinks, the presumption of failure.
Sally Rooney on Characters Who Arrive Preëntangled
The author discusses her story “Opening Theory.”
“The Hadal Zone”
Arwen’s last thought before sleep is that he is in a twisting cyclonic fall down through the ocean trench to become a compressed speck of matter. It feels good.
Annie Proulx on the Allure of the Ocean Deeps
The author discusses her story “The Hadal Zone.”
Bound Together
I felt that I was being tied to the women in my family, those who had come before and those yet to come.
Diorama of Love
Love is wherever love is felt, and with love being a complete statement, well, that’s enough.
The Political Scene
The Reckoning of Joe Biden
For the President to insist on remaining the Democratic candidate would be an act not only of self-delusion but of national endangerment.
The Case for Joe Biden Staying in the Race
The known bad candidate is better than the chaos of the unknown.
Why the French Far Right Triumphed
An expert on French politics explains where President Emmanuel Macron went wrong in calling a snap election.
Finally, a Leap Forward on Immigration Policy
President Biden has offered help to undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens, in the most consequential act of immigration relief in more than a decade.
The Last Rave
In the summer of 2020, I felt as if I’d entered the wrong portal, out of the world I knew and into its bizarro twin.
The Critics
What to Read This Summer
Ronan Farrow, Jia Tolentino, and other New Yorker writers on the classic books that changed their lives.
Kevin Costner’s “Horizon” Goes West but Gets Nowhere
The actor-director’s three-hour Western, the first installment of a planned tetralogy, rushes through its many stories and straight past American history.
Ivan Cornejo’s Mexican American Heartache
“Regional Mexican” music is booming, but one young singer is in no mood to celebrate.
“Clipped” Is A Romp Back Through an N.B.A. Racism Scandal
The FX series about the fallout from a leaked recording of the L.A. Clippers’ owner is extremely entertaining, especially if you are not hoping to learn anything about race.
The Euros Are Like Europe, Only Better
Something is afoot in this tournament, a spectacle that has been explosively enjoyable and peppered with surprises.
The Man Who Could Paint Loneliness
Though known for his gloomy landscapes, Caspar David Friedrich was chasing the sublime—the divinity, in all of nature, that made us seem small.
What We’re Reading This Week
A portrait of Harriet Tubman’s spiritual life amid physical torture and emotional terror; an acute critical history of reality TV; a rich collection of interviews with artists discussing their creative practices, from the odd to the inspirational; and more.
Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker”
Fifty years ago, The New Yorker published an epic series about the most powerful person in the city—the urban planner Robert Moses—and his transformation of N.Y.C.
Part I: How Moses Transformed New York
As he rose in politics, an idealistic urban planner discovered that decisions about the city’s future would be based not on democracy but on power.
Part II: Moses Takes On Long Island’s Millionaires
To give N.Y.C. residents public beaches, he reappropriated dunes and woodlands. Then he faced down the wealthy golfers who lived there.
Part III: How Moses Got Things Done
By the fifties, he had total dominion over the city’s housing, parks, and transportation. How did an unelected official gain so much control?
Part IV: How Moses Lost His Empire
He warped New York’s democratic processes in order to achieve his own vision. What sort of city did he leave behind?
Losing a Beloved Community
I wanted to understand how a radical evangelical church fused faith and a commitment to social justice. Instead, I watched it unravel.
Puzzles & Games
Take a break and play.
In Case You Missed It
Do the Democrats Have a Gen Z Problem?
Young people were critical to Biden’s victory in 2020, but recent polls indicate that loyalty might be fraying. Voters of Tomorrow, which was founded by a teen-ager, is trying to get the kids back on board.
The Talk of the Town
Fiction from the Archives
Annie Proulx
Selected Stories
A Resolute Man
“Was it not his responsibility to save the woman who had saved him?”Tits-Up in a Ditch
“ ‘Way we see it,’ Bonita said to Dakotah, ‘is you ought a join the Army yourself. They take women.’ ”Brokeback Mountain
“They never talked about the sex, let it happen, at first only in the tent at night, then in the full daylight.”Them Old Cowboy Songs
Travails of a homesteading couple.
