The New Yorker: Everything 
Whoopi Goldberg Was and Always Will Be the Whole Show
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.
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?
Congress Used to Work. What Happened?
A lot of its dysfunction goes back to Newt Gingrich.
A Democrat and a Republican in Congress on the Blowback from Mass Detention
The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer speaks with two lawmakers in Congress about the immigration crackdown: the Democrat Jason Crow, of Colorado, and the Republican Maria Salazar, of Florida.
One Refugee’s Journey Through ICE Detention
In 2025, ICE began detaining people at immigration hearings, an unprecedented step. The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer shares the story of one detainee whose life was turned upside down.
Daily Cartoon: Friday, July 24th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Should We Do More to Fight Lookism?
Discrimination against the unattractive is widespread—and widely tolerated.
Julio Torres’s Sea Wench, Qween Jean at Little Island
Also: Flaco the Owl gets a documentary, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard play “The Gin Game,” Broken Social Scene and friends drop in on Brooklyn, and more.
The Kinky Comedy of “I Want Your Sex”
In Gregg Araki’s film, a B.D.S.M. workplace relationship opens up a cross-generational debate about carnal mores.
The White House Press Corps in the Second Trump Era
Kent Nishimura’s photographs capture the backstage labor that allows the Trump show to go on.
The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity
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?
Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea
The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system.
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, July 23rd
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Taco Bellicose
The President goes green.
“No One Knows When It Will End”: A Doctor on the Ebola Emergency
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.