2025-02-21 10:00:15
Tara Westover (@itsmetarajane ), the best-selling author of “Educated,” shares a memoir by Hilary Mantel that inspired her own writing. At the link in our bio, read Westover’s new personal essay, published in our centenary Anniversary Issue. #NewYorker100
2025-02-21 08:25:08
J. D. Vance’s recent speech at the Munich Security Conference represented an astonishing rebuke of America’s closest and most enduring friends, most of them members of NATO. “Indeed, it seemed to turn European reality on its head,” Dexter Filkins writes. The real danger to the Continent, Vance told the gathering, was not Russia or China but the “threat from within,” the failure of its elected leaders to listen to their people, who want an end to mass immigration and, he suggested, a greater voice for conservatives in domestic politics. Meanwhile, in Brussels, the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated that Ukrainians should give up hope of reclaiming all the lands taken by Russia. “The speeches by two of the most senior members of the Trump Administration were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of 80 years of U.S. foreign policy,” Filkins writes. Read more at the link in our bio. Photograph from Ukrinform / Cover Images / AP.
2025-02-20 23:00:04
To celebrate 100 years of @newyorkermag , we partnered on a collection of heritage @jcrew pieces (for kids and adults!) that capture the spirit and style of the iconic cultural institution. Shop for the future critic, longtime subscriber, and everyone in between at the link in our bio.
2025-02-20 22:01:00
A cartoon by Mike Twohy, from 2006. #NewYorkerCartoons
2025-02-20 11:00:21
In less than a month, Donald Trump has come through on his promise to exact retribution on his enemies and to set about overhauling the federal government. Whole agencies are potentially being tossed, as Elon Musk puts it, into “the wood chipper.” Are we headed toward a constitutional crisis, or already there? “We’re at the Rubicon,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the A.C.L.U., recently told David Remnick. “Whether we’ve crossed it is yet to be determined.” If there is going to be a concerted resistance to Trump’s blizzard of executive actions, it will likely play out largely in courts across the country and, ultimately, in the Supreme Court. And if the Administration spurns court orders, what happens next will conceivably determine the fate of democracy and the rule of law in our time. “What can you do if Trump simply ignores the judges, and doesn’t want to listen to anybody, and just directs his people to keep doing what they’re doing?” Remnick asked Romero. “Then we’ve got to take to the streets in a different way. We’ve got to shut down this country. . . . There’s got to be a moment when people of good will will just say, This is way too far.” Read their full conversation at the link in our bio. Photograph by Andrew Harnik / Getty.
2025-02-20 09:00:23
Min Jin Lee, the author of “Pachinko” and “Free Food for Millionaires,” recommends four books that explore the lives of 20th-century women weathering the consequences of the choice their families made to move from one place to another. See more book recommendations from notable figures at the link in our bio. Illustration by Chantal Jahchan (@chantaljahcan ).
