Stock Market Today: Dow surges 600 points toward a record high, S&P 500 and Nasdaq also rise; oil prices, Treasury yields fall on signs of U.S.-Iran war de-escalation; Palantir earnings on tap (news.google.com)
What Does It Even Mean to Be a Moderate? - The Michigan Senate primary has turned into a referendum on a word that has never had a fixed meaning. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Donald Trump Talks So Much About Foreign Election Interference - The White House is distorting intelligence assessments instead of working to protect the midterm elections. (www.newyorker.com)
Kevin Warsh Is Facing More Than a Communication Problem - The Fed chair’s biggest challenge is demonstrating his independence from Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
“I Who Have Never Known Men” and “We Were Forbidden,” Reviewed - Jacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era. (www.newyorker.com)
How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything - The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media. (www.newyorker.com)
Robb Moss Is Still Going with the Flow - The documentarian returns to the Grand Canyon for “The Bend in the River,” the third film in his unofficial series on friendship, nature, and the passage of time. (www.newyorker.com)
Extra! Extra! Read All About It . . . Again - At the Old News Newsstand, yesterday’s headlines are today’s hot scoops—discarded Timeses, out-of-vogue Vogues, cool zines, even vintage smut. (www.newyorker.com)
Shouts & Murmurs by Larry Doyle: Freelance Headlines Stupid Onion Editor Rejected - Married Man Still Able to Drink at Collegiate Level; Sloppy Eater Dog’s New Best Friend; and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Battle of the Dans - Dan J. Sullivan and Dan S. Sullivan are both vying for a Senate seat in Alaska. Who will take the Last Frontier? (www.newyorker.com)
Eric Wareheim, Plant Dad - The “Master of None” actor and half of the duo Tim and Eric turned his post-divorce hobby—collecting Dr. Seussian trees and shrubs—into a hipster business, with Martha Stewart and Kelly Wearstler as clients. (www.newyorker.com)
The Man Who Was Kidnapped Twice - Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Promise,” by Rachel Yoder - You couldn’t be certain, in the night, what sort of world the doors might open onto, were you to turn the knob. (www.newyorker.com)
When “Get Lucky” Took Me Back to the Years of Disco - The 2013 Daft Punk track was uncannily evocative of the late nineteen-seventies, when I was young and dancing was my creed. (www.newyorker.com)
Antonio Banderas’s Acts of Faith - The actor on meeting Stephen Sondheim, staging “Godspell” for the Pope, and the thrill, in the new Anthony Bourdain bio-pic, of playing someone “good.” (www.newyorker.com)