Modern war demands more of special operations medics. AI is helping the Army cram in more of what they need most in training. (www.businessinsider.com)
One Refugee’s Journey Through ICE Detention - In 2025, ICE began detaining people at immigration hearings, an unprecedented step. The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer shares the story of one detainee whose life was turned upside down. (www.newyorker.com)
A Democrat and a Republican in Congress on the Blowback from Mass Detention - The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer speaks with two lawmakers in Congress about the immigration crackdown: the Democrat Jason Crow, of Colorado, and the Republican Maria Salazar, of Florida. (www.newyorker.com)
The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity - How 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? (www.newyorker.com)
The White House Press Corps in the Second Trump Era - Kent Nishimura’s photographs capture the backstage labor that allows the Trump show to go on. (www.newyorker.com)
Julio Torres’s Sea Wench, Qween Jean at Little Island - Also: Flaco the Owl gets a documentary, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard play “The Gin Game,” Broken Social Scene and friends drop in on Brooklyn, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea - The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system. (www.newyorker.com)
The Golden Age of the American Idiot - A new game show features celebrities competing for the title of “Nation’s Dumbest.” How did stupidity become a badge of honor? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside an Immigration Arrest That Sparked a Neighborhood Protest - In the documentary short “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon,” body-cam and bystander footage examine a confrontation between residents and federal agents. (www.newyorker.com)
How a Chinese Immigrant Driver Got Entangled in a Drug Bust - In early 2025, a man from Queens arranged to pick up a passenger in New York’s North County. He’s been in jail upstate ever since. (www.newyorker.com)
Marco Rubio Takes Aim at Globalists and the Left - Primary among the Secretary of State’s targets is the International Criminal Court. (www.newyorker.com)
“No One Knows When It Will End”: A Doctor on the Ebola Emergency - Health-care workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are fighting the third-largest outbreak in history—and trying not to get infected themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory,” Reviewed - French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side. (www.newyorker.com)
“Lost Chapters” Weaves Literary Mysteries Into Family Bonds - The Venezuelan director Lorena Alvarado’s first feature, starring her own relatives in a fictional drama, connects a young woman’s homecoming and her artistic ambitions. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Window,” by Helen Phillips - Yes, pulling the shade was my nightly task, and she’d never think to do it, but already I was half an hour away from home. (www.newyorker.com)
What Biden Officials Wish They Had Done Differently in Gaza - New interviews with former Biden officials reveal early signals that Israel wasn’t prioritizing civilian lives in Gaza. So why was the Administration so reluctant to use its influence? (www.newyorker.com)
There’s Nothing Provincial About This Three-Volume Icelandic Saga - Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s “Trilogy About the Boy” is set in the remote Westfjords but its ambition is universal. (www.newyorker.com)
Maine’s Mad Scramble to Replace Graham Platner - The state’s Democratic primary was dominated by an unlikely left-wing insurgent—it became a three-week sprint for Party insiders to select the next best thing. (www.newyorker.com)