Canadian authorities say multiple grizzlies may have attacked mother and daughter found dead - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos (news.google.com)
Rebecca Michels Was Sure Her Twin Daughters Were Fraternal Until a Nurse Urged a DNA Test, and the Answer Came Back at 16 Billion to One (news.google.com)
The Democrats’ Big Night and the Repudiation of Donald Trump - A previously unimaginable Democratic victory has reshaped the political landscape. Does it signal a lasting shift in the electorate? (www.newyorker.com)
The Night that Texas’s Seemingly Unchangeable Republican Identity Vanished - Texans have something to teach the country about fighting for an apparently hopeless cause; conservatives aren’t the only ones who remember the Alamo. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Repudiation, America’s Revenge in the Midterms - Even J. D. Vance admits that the righteous blue wave in the midterms wasn’t a result of Republicans failing to show up—it’s that they showed up for the Democrats. (www.newyorker.com)
Three Novels that Stuck with Chad Harbach - Chatting with the author of “The Brightness” about the books that influenced him and the one he recommends reading next. (www.newyorker.com)
Emmanuel Carrère Untangles His Russian Roots - The French writer’s latest book is a conflicted, strikingly nuanced portrait of his mother, a celebrated Sovietologist who defended Putin before the invasion of Ukraine. (www.newyorker.com)
A Blue Wave Just Crashed on Trump - The Republican Party has only the President and his policies to blame for its historic losses in the 2026 midterms. (www.newyorker.com)
Haley Stevens and Her Friends Explain What the Hell Just Happened - During a mystifying election week in Michigan, the congresswoman reflects on her endorsement switch, people thinking she’s in “some sort of cahoot” with Republicans, and her fiancé—“the amazing and the one and only Jason Turkish.” (www.newyorker.com)
Finally, the Beginning of Trump’s End - Reflections on a midterm campaign in which our octogenarian President waged war—against algae in the Reflecting Pool. (www.newyorker.com)
The Insistent Monumentality of “La Bola Negra” - In Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s historical triptych, dramas of gay repression and liberation dovetail in ways more reductive than illuminating. (www.newyorker.com)
Life as a D.C. Insider, as Imagined by a D.C. Outsider - I text my best friend, Coal Lobby, and ask if he wants to play outside. “Sorry, I have to be at the Capitol today,” he replies. He adds a sad emoji. I cry. (www.newyorker.com)
Nothing Is Stopping the Flood of A.I. Political Ads - An A.I.-generated Josh Shapiro talking about “deleting incriminating e-mails.” An A.I.-generated Abdul El-Sayed and the words “DEATH TO AMERICA.” They’re not real, but can voters tell the difference? (www.newyorker.com)
Did the World Just Gain Hundreds of Millions of Alzheimer’s Patients? - A new definition of Alzheimer’s includes people without symptoms. Experts are fiercely divided over whether that makes sense—and whether the new drugs really help. (www.newyorker.com)
Reliving the Bronx’s Biggest Battle - In 1776, Continental Army soldiers defended what is now Glover’s Rock from the British. The other day, reënactors did it all again at Orchard Beach. (www.newyorker.com)
The Trouble with Saying What You Mean - In “The Channel,” the poet Jana Prikryl borrows voices from Shakespeare and her own past to explore exile, family, and the possibilities of expressing private grief. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Immigration Agents Don’t Quit in Protest - How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel “at war with an enemy that does not fight back.” (www.newyorker.com)
Roy Lichtenstein’s Witty Critiques of Masculinity - The artist’s best work, in a new retrospective at the Whitney Museum, directs his campy humor at gender stereotypes. (www.newyorker.com)
The Telephone’s Tangled History of Intimacy and Control - “Music Against the Night,” “Her Kind,” “A World We Share,” and “The Flying Death.” (www.newyorker.com)