Hakeem Jeffries is closing in on the Speaker’s gavel, but his path to power runs directly through a group of Democratic Socialists making demands (on.wsj.com)
Republicans across the most competitive House and Senate races have settled on a closing pitch ahead of Election Day: Democrats are too extreme to be given control of Congress (on.wsj.com)
Dr. Sean Barbabella, Trump’s primary physician, is tasked with staying no more than three minutes away from the oldest president ever elected (on.wsj.com)
In August, Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall said he was set up “quite nicely” for reelection. But now he finds himself in a tossup race in a state that President Trump won by 16 percentage points in 2024 (on.wsj.com)
As European nationalist parties have been rising in the polls, they have come to see President Trump as a liability and have distanced themselves from him (on.wsj.com)
President Trump is halting implementation of most of the sanctions that were to be imposed on Russia under a bipartisan bill he signed last month (on.wsj.com)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution of a soldier who went on a 20009 shooting spree would be livestreamed—setting off a dayslong debate within the White House (on.wsj.com)
Restaurant Review: Faux - With the opening of Faux, in Tribeca, Keith McNally’s son steps into the family business. Is it ambition or hubris? (www.newyorker.com)
What John Goodman Knows About Fear - The actor discusses Tom Cruise, the Coen brothers, and his lifelong quest to feel at ease in his own skin. (www.newyorker.com)
How the D.S.A. Learned to Love Elections - Members of the Democratic Socialists of America believe deeply in the possibility of a class revolution. Meanwhile, they’re running for office—and winning. (www.newyorker.com)
The Bari Weiss Effect on “60 Minutes” - CBS News’ editor-in-chief has pledged to “speak for the seventy-five per cent” of people on the center right and the center left; the reality is different. (www.newyorker.com)
“Appeasement, Ohio,” by George Saunders - Sometimes a person has to be bold and trust that the person he’s being bold to will rise to the occasion. (www.newyorker.com)
How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Gave Florida Democrats a Chance - A competitive House race in Miami, which leads all American cities in ICE arrests, has revealed how mass deportations have eroded the President’s support among Latinos. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Next Vacay Is . . . the Strait of Hormuz? - The ad agency MC Saatchi has been working to boost tourism in the war-torn region. One of its inspo pics is Anthony Bourdain in sunglasses. (www.newyorker.com)
Andre D. Wagner’s Eye for the Photo-Ready - Wagner knows the special alchemy that can happen when you point a camera at a Black person on the street. (www.newyorker.com)
We Can Never Understand Elizabeth Holmes, or Nathan Fielder - Unlike Fielder’s past work, “You Can See Everything” isn’t very funny. Instead, the documentary, co-directed by Lance Oppenheim, is a haunting exploration of the limits of other people’s knowability. (www.newyorker.com)
Elon Musk Is Trying to Buy the Midterms, and He Doesn’t Care Who Knows It - Alex Gibney, the director of the new documentary “Musk,” on how the richest man in the world consolidated his power—and now wields it with abandon. (www.newyorker.com)
Anthony Scaramucci Says the Universe Did Katie Zacharia a Favor - The former White House communications director reflects on his record for occupational brevity being broken. (www.newyorker.com)
Has MAGA Lost Faith in Donald Trump? - Rich Baris, a pollster supportive of the MAGA “big tent,” talks about how the President lost control of his movement, and why that spells disaster for Republicans. (www.newyorker.com)
Molly Fischer on Waymo, the Driverless Taxi Coming to a City Near You - Removing human drivers isn’t only a cost-cutting strategy; Waymo riders prefer the solitude, the New Yorker staff writer Molly Fischer says. (www.newyorker.com)
Facing the Death Penalty - The cases of Christa Pike and Nidal Hasan show how vanishingly fine the line is between a routine execution and an unbearable one. (www.newyorker.com)
The Toxic Logic Behind the Shaming of Cornell’s Jane Doe - One of the biggest failures of the post-#MeToo moment is our collective inability to provide a confident, humane account of sex as a basic good. (www.newyorker.com)