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This Week’s Cover
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Reporting & Essays
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Letter from Israel
How Netanyahu’s Top General Became His Strongest ChallengerGadi Eisenkot, whose view of war is shaped by the loss of his son, is, in manner and character, the anti-Bibi.
By David Remnick
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American Chronicles
A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to CollectThe majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men, a pattern that the gun-rights organization has spent decades denying.
By Mike Spies
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Profiles
Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of MischiefWhat moves the star of “Jackass” to risk his life for our entertainment? A very serious investigation.
By Molly Young
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Dept. of Science
What Would It Mean to See a New Color?Olo can be described as the “greenest green,” though it can never be captured by a camera. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision.
By Rivka Galchen
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The Critics
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Pop Music
Steve Lacy’s Modern Love Songs His new album, “Oh Yeah?,” marries the offline charms of nineties R. & B. with the disaffection of a life lived through a screen.
By Amanda Petrusich
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Books
The Myth of the Food Desert Policymakers have assumed that people with good options wouldn’t make bad choices. What if access was never the real problem?
By Kelefa Sanneh
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The Theatre
Jane Wickline Is Down to Clown in “Dukes” The “S.N.L.” cast member partners with Liva Pierce in a musical revue about best friends with bad jobs and no girlfriends.
By Emily Nussbaum
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The Current Cinema
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.
By Justin Chang
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The Talk of the Town
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Semiquincentennial Dept.
Get Yer Statue of Liberty Here! The Hamptons Fine Art Fair recently exhibited a ten-foot Lady Liberty. Noble, solemn, and—wait, how much?
By Emma Allen
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The Pictures
John Leguizamo Is a Noble Fellow The “Ice Age” actor steals Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” as a loyal swineherd to Matt Damon’s Odysseus. Back in New York, he bought the director a two-thousand-year-old thank-you gift.
By Michael Schulman
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The Sporting Scene
Take Me Out to the Brainball Game Hundreds of neurosurgeons gathered in Central Park for inter-hospital softball. Who took home the skull-shaped trophy?
By Ben McGrath
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Deepfake Dept.
Fab Morvan Takes Back His Voice Decades after Milli Vanilli’s lip-synching scandal, the singer is still reclaiming his legacy—with a documentary, an EP, and an almost-performance at Trump’s state fair.
By John Seabrook
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More Top Stories
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Annals of Justice
How a Chinese Immigrant Driver Got Entangled in a Drug BustIn early 2025, a man from Queens arranged to pick up a passenger in New York’s North Country. He’s been in jail upstate ever since.
By Jennifer Gonnerman
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Progress Report
Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive DiarrheaThe cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system.
By Jessica Winter
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Photo Booth
A Celebrity Photographer’s Hidden Stash of PolaroidsFor two decades, Emily Shur, who shot for glossy magazines in the early two-thousands, has been sitting on a trove of images from a bygone era of fame.
By Michael Schulman
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The Political Scene
The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran IdentityHow 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?
By Jasper Craven
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Cartoon by Elisabeth McNair
“I’m not sure if I’m heirloom or if I’m just shaped weird.”
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