Treasury Intensifies Pressure on Iranian Oil Smuggling and Sanctions Evasion Schemes in Iraq - U.S. Department of the Treasury (.gov) (news.google.com)
How Accenture CEO Julie Sweet communicated a major restructuring to 770,000 employees across 120 countries without ever sending a memo (finance.yahoo.com)
Saturation and the Triumph of History: How most of the behavior of Tech Leaders since 2016 can be explained by smartphone market saturation (notes.hella.cheap)
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Man’s Best Friend,” Reviewed - “Man’s Best Friend,” the singer’s newest album, is an obvious companion to her 2024 breakthrough, filled with chatty asides and quick, carnal jokes. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Don’t We Take Nuclear Weapons Seriously? - The risk of nuclear war has only grown, yet the public and government officials are increasingly cavalier. Some experts are trying to change that. (www.newyorker.com)
Do State Referendums on Abortion Work? - Missouri voters approved a measure to protect abortion rights, but opponents have repeatedly blocked it from taking effect. (www.newyorker.com)
Victor Lodato Reads Denis Johnson - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Lex Yard at the Waldorf-Astoria - Lex Yard, in the newly restored hotel, tries for maximalist seasonal cooking creative enough to draw in finicky locals and anodyne enough to satisfy an international clientele. (www.newyorker.com)
The End of the Late-Night Band - Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer. (www.newyorker.com)
How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Anti-Vax Agenda Is Infecting America - A vaccine expert warns that the Secretary of Health and Human Services is deliberately sowing confusion in order to drive down immunization uptake. (www.newyorker.com)
The Surreal Images of Erick and Elliot Jiménez - In “El Monte,” the Cuban American photographers construct a dizzying world inspired by a seminal work of ethnography. (www.newyorker.com)
The Lush Pain Music of Nourished by Time - The artist’s latest album, “The Passionate Ones,” catches your weariness, and, with a dreamer’s irrationality, asks if you would consider transforming it, even for a while. (www.newyorker.com)
What Ghislaine Maxwell Told the Justice Department - Listening to the convicted sex offender’s lengthy interview reveals that she and her interviewer had one goal—to satisfy Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
Fred Armisen on “100 Sound Effects” - The comedian talks about his new album, a sound-effects record for the modern era, with the staff writer Michael Schulman. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow - Adam Gopnik discusses the Administration’s moves to dictate what is acceptable and unacceptable in American culture, and why pluralism remains essential to democracy. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Orleans That Hurricane Katrina Revealed - Twenty years ago, the storm showed how few resources a city built on extraction had. (www.newyorker.com)
Pictures of Life on a Christian Commune - Kate Riley’s début novel, “Ruth,” is about the workings of an insular religious community—and the irresistible pleasure of making up rules. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Midlife Girls’ Trip: A Waiver - By signing, you accept that going on this outing is voluntary, even if your group chat made it not feel that way. (www.newyorker.com)
The Long History of Life on Mars - A new book explores how Americans came to believe in an advanced Martian civilization at the turn of the twentieth century. What does it reveal about our current obsession with the Red Planet? (www.newyorker.com)
The Orgasm Expert Who Ended Up on Trial - Jurors in New York were asked to decide whether Nicole Daedone’s once high-profile California company, OneTaste, promoted a culture of empowerment or exploitation. (www.newyorker.com)