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The Flood Will Come

On July 4th, when the Guadalupe River flooded in the Texas Hill Country, the devastating number of deaths was a tragic testament to the force of a raging river. In the Northeast, Vermont has been hit by one intense flood after another. It has a radical plan to counter the threat it faces. John Seabrook reports.

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Today’s Mix

Coldplaygate Is a Reminder That There’s No Escaping Going Viral

A C.E.O.’s affair, caught on jumbotron and spread across social media, demonstrates that mass attention on today’s internet tends to be deeply undesirable.

Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight

After years of progress in diversity, many companies’ upcoming slates feature mostly, and in some cases entirely, male-writer lineups. The backslide has prompted an outcry.

What the Cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” Means

CBS and its parent company, Paramount, have set an end date for one of the last public pipelines to some version of the truth.

A Federal Trial Reveals the Sprawling Plan Behind Trump’s Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Students

In Boston, a Reagan appointee is on pace to get to the bottom of the campaign against Mahmoud Khalil and others the Administration wants to deport over their activism.

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A Reporter at Large

Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t

Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?

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The Lede

A daily column on what you need to know.

Behind Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein Problem

The President has tried to blame the Democrats, and, more unexpectedly, he has called those in his base who have asked for a fuller accounting “weaklings” and “stupid.”

Another Doctor Is Dead in Gaza

In February, Marwan Sultan showed me the wrecked hospital where he worked. In July, an Israeli missile killed him.

How Dartmouth Became the Ivy League’s Switzerland

The school has attracted attention for its refusal to join the higher-ed resistance, and for its avoidance of any direct sanctions by the Trump Administration.

Trump Has a Bad Case of Biden on the Brain

Distracted by the President’s constant bashing of his predecessor? Of course not.

Can Trump Deport People to Any Country That Will Take Them?

A Yale Law professor on the Administration’s third-country deportation powers—and why the Supreme Court allowed it to send eight men to a prison in South Sudan.

Chased by Climate Disaster in North Carolina

During Tropical Storm Chantal, a mother worried for the safety of her daughter, who is still grappling with the trauma of Hurricane Helene.

Sick Children Will Be Among the Victims of Trump’s Big Bill

Cuts to federal health-care spending make it harder for doctors to make the oldest promise in medicine: that we will do no harm.

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The Lede

The Fight for Mexican Los Angeles

The city’s Mexican consul is trying to protect local immigrants, but there are limits to what he can accomplish.

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The Critics

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The Price of Occupation

In Sakir Khader’s photographs of the West Bank, life and death coexist.

Under Review

“Clint” Highlights the Artistic Modernity of an Old-School Man

Shawn Levy’s biography of Clint Eastwood explores revelatory connections between the filmmaker’s methods and his deep-rooted world view.

Second Read

Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel

In “Work: A Story of Experience,” Alcott fictionalizes her own stints as a servant, a seamstress, a governess, and a lady’s companion—and asks whether a wage counts as freedom for women.

Pop Music

Justin Bieber’s Messy, Improbable Masterpiece

“SWAG” is the artist’s first album to hover above his noisy celebrity, to make a case for its own specificity.

The Current Cinema

“Eddington” Is a Lethally Self-Satisfied COVID Satire

In Ari Aster’s dark comedy, Joaquin Phoenix plays the sheriff of a New Mexico town riven by political clashes and pandemic anxieties.

On Television

The Trophy Abs and Soul Ties of “Love Island USA”

The Peacock reality show, filmed in Fiji, offers a parallel America in which nearly naked contestants attempt to pair up and the audience votes on the winning couple.

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The Best Books We Read This Week

A deeply sourced book that lays bare the errancies of the C.I.A. and American intelligence; a novel ruminating on the preservation of ancient traditions in the modern world; a serious academic history tracing the cultural meaning of hair across centuries; and more.

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Our Columnists

The Sporting Scene

Bottoms Up for the Big Dumper

Cal Raleigh, of the Seattle Mariners, and of the eponymous big butt, has been drawing a lot of attention lately—but he deserves even more.

Fault Lines

Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Three Conspiracy-Theory Theories

Trump rode the paranoid style of MAGA politics to power. Has he discovered that he can’t control it?

Critic’s Notebook

How Rembrandt Saw Esther

What the queen means to Jewish tradition and to resisting tyranny and persecution—in the seventeenth century and today.

Infinite Scroll

Gentle Parenting My Smartphone Addiction

An app called Opal finally succeeded at curbing my time spent on social media through a combination of mild friction, encouragement, and guilt.

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The Political Scene

Donald Trump’s Tariff Dealmaker-in-Chief

How Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, plans to transform government into a money-making enterprise.

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Ideas

A Reporter at Large

Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War?

With global conflicts increasingly shaped by drones and A.I., the American military risks losing its dominance.

A Critic at Large

A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness

The discomfort of feeling lonely shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.

Onward and Upward with the Arts

Remembrance of Scents Past

At museums, curators are incorporating smells that can transport visitors to a different time.

Books

What Will Become of the C.I.A.?

The covert agency has long believed in the power of knowing one’s enemy. But these days the threats are coming from above.

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Personal History

What I Inherited from My Criminal Great-Grandparents

In working through the Winter case files, I often felt pinpricks of déjà vu: an exact turn of phrase, an absurdly specific expenditure.

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Persons of Interest

A Family Doctor’s Search for Salvation

How Eva Victor Reimagined the Trauma Plot

Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?

Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are in on the Joke

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Books

The First Time America Went Beard Crazy

A sweeping new history explores facial hair as a proving ground for notions about gender, race, and rebellion.

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The Weekend Essay

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black at Fenway

My father taught me about jazz, poetry, and philosophy, but he couldn’t show me how to be Black and a Red Sox fan.

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In Case You Missed It

The First World War, in Sharp Focus
An English chronicler of the trenches, and his wartime romance, captured in long-lost photographs.
The Annual Agony of Yearning for a Homegrown Wimbledon Champion
Each year, Britain sends forth its best young men and women, no matter how good at tennis they actually are.
Teaching Men Who Will Never Leave Prison
In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” finding a sense of purpose that transcended ordinary coursework.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Fiction

“The Chartreuse”

Illustration by Balint Zsako
The dress had come and gone and she’d missed it, apparently. “Sorry we missed you,” the FedEx tag on her door said. That was all they’d left her with, a tag.

How could you have missed me? she thought, her heart thudding. I only just went down to throw the garbage away. She stared at her white front door, which was covered in rust spots. So many that it looked diseased.

“I wasn’t even gone a minute,” she told the door.Continue reading »

The Talk of the Town

Dept. of Masked Men

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field

D.C. Postcard

“Yes, And” for Downsized Federal Workers

Make It New

Dining Sheds, Repotted

Dept. of Unicorns

Airbnb Gets Experiential

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