How Far Could Donald Trump’s Assault on the Federal Reserve Go? - Some central-bank veterans are concerned about a scenario in which the President’s appointees gain effective control of the institution and end its independence. (www.newyorker.com)
New Yorker Covers, Brought to Life! - To celebrate the magazine’s hundredth anniversary, photographers collaborated with Spike Lee, Julia Garner, Sadie Sink, and other notable figures to update covers from the archive. (www.newyorker.com)
The U.S. Government’s Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García - The Trump Administration’s maneuvers are rising to a political prosecution. (www.newyorker.com)
Bouldering Beside the Harlem River Drive - After learning to climb by scaling his family’s Park Slope town house, a nineteen-year-old likes to tackle the ledges of upper Manhattan, unless the cops get in the way. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance - The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer? (www.newyorker.com)
How Other Things End - With apologies to T. S. Eliot, clocking the dénouement of your kid’s bedtime ritual, the energy-drink craze, and your career, to name a few. (www.newyorker.com)
Debbie Gibson’s Pavarotti Period - The eighties pop princess returns to the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang in the Children’s Chorus, and shows off her new memoir, “Eternally Electric.” (www.newyorker.com)
Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican Homecoming - The Latin-trap performer is probably the most important pop musician of our time. Key to his success is that the bigger he gets, the more local he seems. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to John Seabrook’s piece on floods, Eyal Press’s article on the National Restaurant Association, and Adam Gopnik’s essay on the history of gambling in New York. (www.newyorker.com)
Duck, Cover, and Pass: The Atomic Bowl - A former Crawdaddy editor produced a documentary on a peculiar postwar military football game in Nagasaki. (www.newyorker.com)
In Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, a Dynasty Comes Home - A new sanctuary on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway assembles a deliberately whimsical variety of materials, where sculpture moves and is moved in turn. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Sagrada Família a Masterpiece or Kitsch? - In the century since Antoni Gaudí died, his wild design has been obsessively realized, creating the world’s tallest church—and an endlessly debated icon. (www.newyorker.com)
How Jessica Reed Kraus Went from Mommy Blogger to MAHA Maven - The founder of “House Inhabit” has grown her audience during the second Trump Administration with political gossip and what she calls “quality conspiracy.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Jane Birkin Handled the Problem of Beauty - She possessed a mysterious charisma and a seemingly effortless sense of style. Both obscured her relentless, often painful search for meaning. (www.newyorker.com)