Medicaid’s 162,660 Question: What the At-Home Spouse Keeps, What Gets Spent Down, and the One Move That Turns “Excess” Savings Into Untouchable Income (finance.yahoo.com)
The Stock Market Is Flashing a Warning Seen Only 6 Times Since 1871, and History Is Crystal Clear That a Disaster Could Be Heading Toward Wall Street (news.google.com)
Trump made a series of social-media posts over the holiday weekend calling for changing New Mexico’s name to “New America,” his most ambitious—and unlikely—attempt yet to remake the North American map (on.wsj.com)
“Paranormal Activity” Creeps Onto Broadway - Oren Peli, the creator of the original horror-film series, stops by the new stage production and dishes on the creaky house that spooked—and inspired—him back in 2005. (www.newyorker.com)
Gloria Steinem Gave It All - The feminist icon understood that you may spend your whole life walking toward a world you will never enter, but that does not relieve you of the obligation to walk. (www.newyorker.com)
Saudi Arabia’s Pursuit of Michelin Stardom - The kingdom, seeking to rebrand as a culinary juggernaut, has bankrolled new restaurants and conscripted big-name chefs. Will it succeed? (www.newyorker.com)
How Hermès Unharnessed Fashion - Under the stewardship of Nadège Vanhée, the artistic director of women’s wear, a house known for craftsmanship is exploring the risqué. (www.newyorker.com)
Willem de Kooning’s Excavations of Intimacy - The first major show of the artist’s drawings articulates his pain and anger and the frightful era he lived in. (www.newyorker.com)
What Carla Lalli Cooked After Her Divorce - With “Food Is a Feeling,” the cookbook author joins a lineage of writers who have explored the appetites of the newly unmarried. (www.newyorker.com)
The Prolific Storytelling of This Is Lorelei - Nate Amos writes songs that both embrace and lampoon dusty singer-songwriter tropes. (www.newyorker.com)
Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed? - So far, the proliferation of A.I. models such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn’t led to mass displacement of workers. But deployment is accelerating and economic pressures are rising. (www.newyorker.com)
Can You Feel the Dub Tonight? - For years, a Peruvian voice actor has tried to get Disney to sign off on his Quechuan translation of “The Lion King.” The new documentary “Runa Simi” follows his path unwinding. (www.newyorker.com)
Grandmaster Flash’s Remix of Hip-Hop History - In his new book, “Birth of a Culture,” the trailblazing d.j. tells his version of how it all began. (www.newyorker.com)
The Culture Wars Have Come for Lingerie - The culture wars have come for lingerie as the right, once the advocates of promise rings and purity culture, embarks on a crusade to “Make America Hot Again.” (www.newyorker.com)
Tom Sachs Channels Chanel - At his downtown studio, the perennially provocative artist makes a lo-fi version of the brand’s flagship Parisian store. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Becca Rothfeld’s review of Rachel Cusk’s latest novel, Alexandra Schwartz’s piece about death doulas, and Zach Helfand’s Talk story about the Old News Newsstand. (www.newyorker.com)
Helen Help Me: Juice That’s Worth the Squeeze - A food critic answers readers’ questions about a citrus-related relationship dispute and restaurant birthday dinners. (www.newyorker.com)
9/11 at Twenty-Five - A quarter century after the attacks, the grief, wars, and political furies of their aftermath still shape American life. (www.newyorker.com)
“Ode to Being Born with Teeth and Sharpening Them Every Day,” by Barbara Hamby - “If you like surprises, being born has to be the best.” (www.newyorker.com)
A Political Operative on the Verge of Self-Deportation - Daysi González, who works to elect Democrats, is gearing up to leave the U.S. as soon as this month. She wants her own party to pay attention. (www.newyorker.com)
“New Shoes,” by Hisham Matar - My life in London, the life I had cobbled together with the barest of routines, grew thin and unconvincing. It now seldom felt real. (www.newyorker.com)