Mark Foster looks back: ‘After my first Olympics, I was working as a groundsman, lifeguard and glazier. I thought the swimming was over’ (www.theguardian.com)
Money Turning Into More Money Sounds Too Good to Be True. Does Building a Large Portfolio Actually Require Less Work Than People Assume? (finance.yahoo.com)
6% APY, Unlimited 3% Cash Back and Free ATM Withdrawals: Everything You Need to Know About Elon Musk''s ''Bank Killer'' X Money App (finance.yahoo.com)
America’s farmers and ranchers are raising red flags about the potential drain on local resources that the data-center construction boom poses (on.wsj.com)
The good news from the WSJ survey of economists: The Iran war didn’t hurt the U.S. nearly as much as feared; the bad news: It left inflation more persistent (on.wsj.com)
The Trump administration subpoenaed four New York Times reporters who worked on stories about security concerns with a Qatari-gifted jet used as Air Force One (on.wsj.com)
Even a chatbot trained on nutrition and fitness research that dispenses reasonable-sounding guidance can become a deadly influence for patients with eating disorders, writes @juliejargon (on.wsj.com)
I''m a single mom, living in the Hamptons. It''s a struggle to pay my 4,000 rent and to keep up with the glamorous lifestyle. (www.businessinsider.com)
An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like - Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda. (www.newyorker.com)
The Summer I Surrendered to Wilson Phillips - In 1990, three daughters of rock royalty—nepo babies before the term was invented—released “Hold On,” a song so wholesome and unguarded that it could disarm even the angstiest teen. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Zoli - Zoli, which now anchors the sprawling East Williamsburg art space Amant, earns its experimental flourishes by delivering pleasure at every turn. (www.newyorker.com)
The Art of Ana Mendieta Comes Into Focus at the Tate Modern - Four decades after her death, her bold innovations are finally coming into focus. (www.newyorker.com)
The Great American State Flop - Was Donald Trump’s fair for the country’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth more funeral than party? Swing by the Washington, D.C., booth to find out. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Office-to-Residential Conversions Survive the Pfizer-Building Crisis? - The thirty-seven-story tower in midtown was stabilized, after almost falling over earlier this week. Now Nathan Berman, the real-estate developer behind its renovation, will have to deal with the fallout. (www.newyorker.com)
Our Plastic-Surgery Nightmare - As cosmetic procedures become both more invisible and more extreme, our connection to reality is fraying. (www.newyorker.com)
The Platner Implosion, and What It Means for Democrats - With the Maine nominee’s Senate campaign in shambles, Democrats are scrambling to find candidates who can win in this year’s midterms—and in 2028. (www.newyorker.com)
How an Estimated Seven Hundred Thousand People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts - Atul Gawande, the former assistant administrator for global health at U.S.A.I.D., on the devastating effects of cuts to international aid by DOGE and Elon Musk. (www.newyorker.com)
The World Cup, the Knicks, and LeBron James’s Fate: An All-Time Summer in Sports - The staff writer Louisa Thomas on the U.S. men’s national soccer team, the N.B.A. off-season, and Serena Williams. (www.newyorker.com)
The Story of France vs. Morocco - The match began as a snooze, then became a romp. But the brilliance of the French team, and of its biggest star, Kylian Mbappé, shone through. (www.newyorker.com)
Michigan Is the Next Big Test for the Democratic Party - The Senate primary race between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed reflects the Party’s growing ideological schism, but it’s also a contest of competing campaign styles. (www.newyorker.com)
The Race to Be the First Democratic Primary State - How the debate over the first-in-the-nation primary became a battle over the future of the Democratic Party. (www.newyorker.com)
“Remake,” Reviewed: The Film Confronts a Father’s Grief and a Filmmaker’s Responsibility - The documentarian Ross McElwee’s new feature is an anguished reflection on the life and death of his son, Adrian, who was a frequent subject of his films. (www.newyorker.com)
Éric Rohmer’s Novel “Élisabeth” Is a Precocious Literary Triumph - Before he had any interest in movies, Rohmer was a writer, and his 1946 début is a fine-grained vision of small-town lives in prewar France. (www.newyorker.com)
“Birthright” and “Giant” Tackle Jewish Identity. - The plays explore interpersonal rifts over Israel, but only one lets the ugliness linger. (www.newyorker.com)