Examining Trump’s War on the Media, and a Warning from Hungary
This is the second installment of “How Bad Is It,” a recurring series in which the staff writer Andrew Marantz
READ MOREOctober 6, 2026
This is the second installment of “How Bad Is It,” a recurring series in which the staff writer Andrew Marantz
READ MORE“Every time I start to think about the water, Trump comes up with another stupid distraction.”
READ MOREWhen “It Was Just an Accident,” a new movie from the Iranian director Jafar Panahi, won the Palme d’Or at
READ MORE[thoughtful music] Hi, I’m Ilana Glazer, and today I’m going to caption some New Yorker cartoons, and I don’t know
READ MOREFor the cover of the June 2, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson features Marshall W. (Major) Taylor leading a
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READ MORENathan Fielder, like Andy Kaufman before him, makes performance-art comedy that does not only poke fun at the world but
READ MOREOn September 8, 1943, Italy surrendered to the Allies, and the Germans, who already effectively controlled the north of Italy,
READ MOREThe earliest photography was voracious and encyclopedic. There was a whole world of things that had never been seen in
READ MOREIn the run-up to the première of “Thunderbolts*,” on May 2nd, Marvel earned some light mockery for the art-house vibe
READ MORESarah Milgrim was someone who knew “exactly what she wanted out of life,” according to people who knew her well.
READ MOREConsidering Donald Trump’s many outrages, his theatrically hostile reception of Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa, in the Oval
READ MOREFrom the daily newsletter: Nicolas Niarchos reports from Khartoum. Plus: the radical courage of Noor Abdalla; and Justin Chang reviews
READ MORE“. . . and can you believe it only cost a hundred and eighty people their Medicaid benefits?”
READ MOREThe creators of the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series talk about reporting on the military, elevating the testimony of survivors, and
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READ MORE“I understand it just as much as any other European election.”
READ MOREBill Belichick, one of the winningest coaches in N.F.L. history, and currently the head football coach at the University of
READ MORELast July, the National Basketball Association announced a new eleven-year media-rights agreement with Amazon, NBC, and ESPN, set to take
READ MORESalacuse is the kind of person who always seems to have a project or five under way. I first met
READ MOREThe institution has not neglected to commemorate the history of agitation against it. The year 2018 marked five decades since
READ MOREOne thing is immediately clear in Anna-Sophia Richard’s short film “My Orange Garden,” and that is how much Faravaz Farvardin
READ MORE“This book is banned, but the internet is fair game.”
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READ MORE“He totally fucked us.” Biden cost Democrats the 2024 race, Party insiders tell Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Plus: Illustration
READ MORE“I feel incredibly lucky that I’m able to earn a living doing what I love.”
READ MOREThe White House driveway is an unlikely venue for announcing plans to upend the Constitution. But, strolling up to the
READ MOREOn the first night of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he signed an executive order called “Ending the Weaponization
READ MOREThis past October, subscribers to Woman of Letters, the Substack newsletter of the writer Naomi Kanakia, received an e-mail titled
READ MOREThis magazine’s ongoing centenary celebration has included a cinematic component: a series at Film Forum, “Tales from The New Yorker,”
READ MOREEdgarlys Castañeda Rodríguez, a slight, delicate-featured twenty-seven-year-old from Venezuela, posted makeup tutorials and dance videos to her few thousand followers
READ MORE“Good conclave, good conclave, good conclave. . . .”
READ MOREIn Donald Trump’s first term, he reinvented many things about how the job of President was done. The strictly scheduled
READ MORE“I don’t really mind the government’s new death ray, because it hasn’t hit me yet.”
READ MOREThe President loves posting A.I. images of himself. The staff writer Katy Waldman sees these often bizarre representations as the
READ MOREOn May 9th, Vladimir Putin will oversee a parade in Moscow’s Red Square, commemorating the Soviet Union’s victory in the
READ MORELeather, feathers, and capes—oh, my! The glamour of the Met Gala promenade honoring Black dandyism. And, then, Ian Frazier takes
READ MOREA hundred years ago, when The New Yorker was founded, New York City had a gravitational pull—and it still does.
READ MOREWorse, I’m not sure I want to. If I’m away and something big happens, I usually ask a friend if
READ MOREIf you ever had the pleasure of eating at Momofuku Ko, the wonderful, ambitious, and sometimes sort of compellingly bizarre
READ MOREJournalism is not standup comedy. We’re not in the same world. So what do you think your responsibility is? My
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READ MOREI remember the first time I saw a physique photograph, and I remember being both excited and upset at the
READ MORE“Journalists’ work is under fire.” Donald Trump is yanking federal funds from public media. Leaders at NPR-affiliate stations around the
READ MORERock documentaries and bio-pics have been parodied for nearly as long as they have existed, but there’s a reason for
READ MORE“Let me tell you why this thing I felt like doing anyway is also a radical act of resistance.”
READ MORE“I had found my doomscrolling methadone.” In this week’s issue, Lepore turns to her stack of Penguin Little Black Classics, which
READ MOREIn the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since
READ MORE“The Clock,” the addictive film masterpiece by the Swiss artist Christian Marclay, has been showing continually at MOMA since November,
READ MORE“He has enough in his I.R.A. to fly first class to / Byzantium.”
READ MOREShortly after Pope Francis died, on Monday, the Vatican released a brief document he had authored in 2022, outlining his
READ MOREThe restaurant’s head chef, Manuchar Tsikolia, is joined in the kitchen by Ruslan Giorgberidze, a dedicated khinkali cook (and an
READ MOREIn today’s newsletter, the ritualistic sights and scenes at Pope Francis’s funeral. Plus: Photograph by Antonio Masiello / Getty Paul
READ MOREJeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore.
READ MOREBefore watching “April,” the new movie from the Georgian director and screenwriter Dea Kulumbegashvili, I had seen only one other
READ MOREFor many years, the term Afrobeats, referring to a West African pop style that integrates dancehall, rap, and R. &
READ MOREThis week in Washington, the rare convergence of the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
READ MOREFunding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support
READ MOREAt a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead
READ MOREIn late March, Leecia Welch, a deputy litigation director at Children’s Rights, a legal nonprofit that represents children in government
READ MORE“You do realize that just because you stopped watching the news doesn’t mean it stopped happening.”
READ MORENo one is a prophet in his own land, Jesus warns in the Gospel of Luke—not even, apparently, the Pope.
READ MOREPope Francis smiled a lot, easily and broadly. He thrived on direct, informal encounters: phone calls, penned notes, hugs, audiences
READ MOREYour story “Tortoiseshell” draws on a controversy about Giuseppe Trevisani, who, in his Italian translation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The First
READ MOREThree years ago, in El Salvador, after the MS-13 gang killed eighty-seven people in a span of seventy-two hours, President
READ MOREIt takes a while for “The Wedding Banquet,” Ang Lee’s 1993 hit romantic comedy, to get to the big event
READ MOREOver the phone, Frykholm read aloud to me some of the passages that she had translated. “I am going to
READ MOREIn the nineteen-seventies, U.C.L.A.’s Ethno-Communications program, founded to increase minority enrollment, attracted a critical mass of young Black filmmakers. They
READ MOREEvery morning, a line forms at about six outside the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, on West Thirty-first Street,
READ MOREJust when you thought it was safe to go back in the bloodstream, along comes a new horde of vampires,
READ MOREI listened to music on a Walkman. I read books in elementary school so that I could earn free personal-pan
READ MOREIn a thrillingly delightful surprise—and that’s understating it—to many of us who’ve been working in universities for much of our
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READ MORE“I believe this is the civil-rights violation of our lifetime.” In a startling new investigation, Sarah Stillman reports on the
READ MORE“The Maverick’s Museum,” “The Franklin Stove,” “The Dream Hotel,” and “Hunchback.”
READ MOREOn a recent afternoon, the actor Michael Gandolfini ascended an escalator to Whitehall Terminal to take the twelve-thirty ferry to
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READ MOREJust after 1 p.m. this past Wednesday, President Trump posted a statement on Truth Social saying that he was pausing,
READ MOREOn the first episode of “Paul American,” a new reality-TV show currently streaming on Max, the YouTuber, influencer, and wrestler
READ MORE“They’ve effectively disappeared.” A report on forty-eight people arrested by ICE in New Mexico, in early March—whose identities and whereabouts
READ MOREApproximately ninety-five per cent of Justices in Supreme Court history: three letters.
READ MOREAmid the chaos of a week when the world nearly witnessed its first global depression caused by the caprice of
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READ MOREI’ve never played Minecraft in my life—but then I’m not a Christian, either, and have always delighted in the distinctly
READ MORE“They have hearts broken into pieces.” A report on the recent U.S. air strikes in Yemen, where more than fifty
READ MOREReading is one of the main ways to stay informed and entertained in an increasingly busy world to live in.
READ MOREAs President Donald Trump golfed in Florida over the weekend, his hefty new tariffs, which target everywhere from China to
READ MOREThe Frick Collection, on East Seventieth Street, is, by so many miles, the finest small city museum—less self-consciously eccentric than
READ MOREIn the very first paragraph of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s operating manual for a second Trump Administration, battle lines
READ MOREWhat decade is “Magazine Dreams,” a spiritually stifled drama about a bodybuilder driven to fits of chemically induced rage, set
READ MOREOnline, personal accounts of loss gave way to stories about helping those in distress. Friendly, who’d been feeling helpless as
READ MORESouth Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of the country’s President, removing him from office. E. Tammy Kim, who covered
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READ MOREBy the standards of world-historical events, much of Donald Trump’s Wednesday afternoon speech in the Rose Garden was remarkably forgettable.
READ MOREWhen I was sixteen, my friend Miriam texted me to say that she’d failed our English exam and I replied,
READ MORESarah Larson joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Tesla Takedown movement, protesting Elon Musk and Donald Trump, along with the
READ MORECongratulations, Floor B13! It’s officially time for you all to come back into the office. It’s been years since all
READ MOREAlbert Mohler, the longtime president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is one of the best-known evangelicals in the United
READ MORETake One Kelefa Sanneh’s insightful deep dive into the world of Mike White omitted mention of White’s first solo TV
READ MOREAlba stretched her arms dramatically. “I mean, I guess it would be fun to have an amoureux in Marseille. Handy
READ MOREKeith Meister, in the operating room of his private practice, draws a six-centimetre line on the elbow of a baseball
READ MORELast September, my newly three-year-old daughter strode into preschool for the first time, sporting a ladybug shirt, red pants, and
READ MORECandy Clark came to Hollywood at the dawn of the seventies, a spunky twentysomething who’d fled her conservative Texas home
READ MORESecret-keepers of the rich and famous. Reporting from Palm Beach, Florida, where power is amassing among the affluent—and among their
READ MOREBeguiling blends of fiction and nonfiction are the highlights of this year’s edition of the New Directors/New Films series, at
READ MOREAbout that group chat … it’s bad. And the spectre of autocracy is even worse, David Remnick argues. But, first,
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READ MOREThe Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who died in 2015, at the age of a hundred and six, is the
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READ MOREWhen a prosecutor began chasing an accused sexual predator, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. A report from
READ MORESeeking Shelter, by Jeff Hobbs (Scribner). This moving real-life saga opens with a family—Evelyn and her five, soon to be
READ MOREThe beauty of March Madness is that anything can happen. The horror of March Madness is that, really, anything can
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READ MORENothing good ever seems to come of Gal Gadot singing. Those of us with clear memories of March, 2020, during
READ MOREA mother is currently suing Character AI, a company that promotes “AIs that feel alive,” over the suicide of her
READ MOREIn today’s newsletter, startling discoveries while reporting on Trump’s efforts to remake NASA in his own image, and then: Illustration
READ MOREOn January 20th, in his Inaugural Address, Donald Trump spoke rapturously about space exploration. “We will pursue our manifest destiny
READ MOREFrom the daily newsletter: Gossip about gossip. Plus: the Trump Administration’s latest moves; Andrew Scott’s dazzling one-man “Vanya”; and trend
READ MOREA little more than a decade ago, the video-game designer Davey Wreden experienced a crippling success. In October, 2013, he
READ MOREWhen the king took bread and bit down on a hard golden crust, he realized his mistake, and said, “What
READ MOREIn today’s newsletter, Rebecca Mead with a deeply reported portrait of Jonathan Anderson, the creative director who just announced his
READ MOREScott grew up in Baltimore, in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, “thinking that the government was an honorable place to work.”
READ MOREOne morning in January, I met the musician Lucy Dacus at the Cloisters, the medieval-art museum at the northwestern tip
READ MOREFor almost fifteen minutes, we sit looking at a vertical screen on a seemingly empty stage. In the projection, the
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READ MOREEarly on in “Mulholland Drive,” the late, great David Lynch’s 2001 surreal masterpiece of American aspiration and degeneration, the young
READ MOREIn today’s newsletter, what the case of Mahmoud Khalil tells us about the Administration’s attitude toward free speech. But, first,
READ MOREMinutes into the new Netflix drama “Adolescence,” a thirteen-year-old boy is arrested for murder. Early in the morning, half a
READ MORESomewhere in London’s theatre district—I can’t say where—there’s a nondescript office building with a neon sign in the lobby that
READ MORE“Maybe we should fight some of our international conflicts the old-fashioned way, like with a chess match, or a race
READ MOREIn the spring of 2011, Lady Gaga, then twenty-five years old and on the cusp of releasing her second full-length
READ MOREMahmoud Khalil, a thirty-year-old born in Syria who recently graduated with a master’s degree from Columbia University, was arrested by
READ MOREThe approach of springtime in New York means the arrival of French movies, whether via the annual Rendez-Vous with French
READ MORE“Thanks, but I still have at least another month of seasonal depression to go.”
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READ MOREThe original idea was an assignation. On a dreary Wednesday in September, 1960, John Updike, “falling in love, away from
READ MOREOn Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the recently confirmed Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, published
READ MOREThese young men had very little education. With some difficulty, Kumar, who was twenty-six, could write in Hindi his name
READ MORESusan Wojcicki, the C.E.O. of YouTube. The company is facing profound technical, social, and political challenges in moderating its own
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READ MOREWhen I was a boy, the company that my father worked for transferred him from Los Angeles to Toronto, so
READ MORESarah Kempa’s Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on Elon Musk and DOGE’s firing of federal workers and conflicting orders regarding five
READ MOREIn a time of upheaval and uncertainty, the classical pianist and best-selling author Jeremy Denk, like many people, is trying
READ MORETrump’s trade war has officially begun. In today’s newsletter, a breakdown on what the tariffs might mean. But, first, reporting
READ MOREIf you have spent time on Wikipedia—and especially if you’ve delved at all into the online encyclopedia’s inner workings—you will
READ MOREIn today’s newsletter, our critics take in a silly, and strikingly apolitical, night at the Oscars. And then: Mikey Madison.
READ MORENot long ago, I asked The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick, whether he’d ever return to the Academy Awards, having
READ MOREA film released by The New Yorker was among the winners at Sunday’s Academy Awards. “I’m Not a Robot,” a
READ MOREAI Applications Adapt to Evolving Regulations AI applications operate in a rapidly changing regulatory landscape, where new laws and guidelines
READ MOREPhotograph by Valerie Macon / AFP / Getty The Academy Awards will take place this evening in Los Angeles, and
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READ MOREThe expansive machinery of loss contains many moving parts, interconnected tragedies that occasionally become interconnected blessings. There is the tragedy
READ MOREIn today’s newsletter: Donald Trump and J. D. Vance berated Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on live television today. The moment
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READ MOREWidespread news reports on Wednesday said that the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, has recommended the
READ MOREsfinansować laptopa Dell Kupno nowego laptopa, szczególnie modelu z wyższej półki, może wiązać się z dużym wydatkiem, który nie zawsze
READ MOREFilm-festival juries are consistently inconsistent, and often arbitrarily assembled. Each year, several largely unacquainted, disparate-minded luminaries from across the film
READ MORE“Obviously, it’s a biological phenomenon, but it also is largely a cultural phenomenon,” the staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus says.
READ MORE“Best I can do right now is warmer weather.”
READ MOREIn today’s newsletter, Jon Lee Anderson’s personal experiences with U.S.A.I.D. But, first, a new story from Gideon Lewis-Kraus digs into
READ MORE“Look, I totally get it. But it’s been two days now—maybe it’s time to get out of the bath?”
READ MOREIn today’s newsletter, a report on the Ukrainian spy who is accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline. But,
READ MORE“Elon Musk says I have to justify my job, then forward his e-mail to ten federal employees, or I’ll have bad
READ MORELee opened Sunn’s in partnership with the wine maven Grant Reynolds, of Parcelle, who oversees the quite excellent wine program;
READ MORELate last month, after President Donald Trump suggested that diversity initiatives were to blame for a plane crash in Washington,
READ MOREBack in 2021, I wrote an essay about the great musicians who, surprisingly, had performed at my high school, in
READ MORESeventeen years ago, on assignment for The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin travelled through central Texas on a barbecue-themed road trip.
READ MOREImagine grasshoppers distributed evenly across a dry field. As the temperature rises, the grasshoppers start to sweat. The field catches
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READ MORENo matter how many times Donald Trump openly parrots the Kremlin line, it’s never not going to sound wrong coming
READ MOREThe Munich Security Conference, a usually staid gathering of diplomatic and military leaders, offered up a startling moment last week
READ MOREstan dysku twardego komputera Dell Stan dysku twardego ma kluczowe znaczenie dla prawidłowego działania komputera Dell. Uszkodzony lub zużyty dysk
READ MOREIn today’s newsletter, the trans kids losing access to care, and then: Photograph by John Trotter Where Do Trans Kids
READ MOREIn the spring of 2014, a trans-anarchist Google engineer petitioned the White House to arrest our national decline. The plan
READ MOREwejściami na monitorze Dell Monitor Dell można podłączyć do innych monitorów, aby wyświetlać dwa lub więcej wyświetlaczy na pulpicie. Możesz
READ MOREIn today’s newsletter, Nick Paumgarten on his reporting about the painstaking, quixotic efforts to save an endangered species, and then:
READ MORE“We’ve replaced all our screens at home with relentless immersion in the here and now.”
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READ MORETwo New Yorker staff writers were announced on Monday as winners of this year’s George Polk Awards, among the highest
READ MOREThere’s something almost ritualistically precise about the Hawaiian plate lunch. A scoop of pale macaroni salad, almost quietly radical in
READ MOREThere have been worse trades than the one that sent Luka Dončić from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles
READ MORESnowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the
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READ MORE“Gaston can’t eat five dozen eggs every morning with these prices!”
READ MORESince Donald Trump was first elected President, in 2016, scholars of authoritarianism have warned that American democracy is under grave
READ MOREThe guys over at 15 Orient have been hitting a lot of home runs lately. Pardon the sports idiom: if
READ MOREThe Sundance Film Festival has long established itself as the most important showcase for American independent cinema, piping out work
READ MORE“Weather forecast in a moment, but, first, here’s Jen with the latest in sports.”
READ MORERacism has ended! Have you heard? Or maybe ending racism has ended. On Tuesday, it was reported that the N.F.L.
READ MOREI’m not sure if the same can be said of the new Lundy’s, whose home is an odd little corner
READ MOREChristmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they
READ MOREOn paper, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room—the setting of the new Max drama “The Pitt”—is the kind of place
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