04:02 The Michael Kelly Award from The Atlantic is Awarded to Drew Philp for “There Will Be No Mercy” published in The Atavist Magazine (www.theatlantic.com)
09-18 The Fed Hiked Interest Rates for the First Time in 3 Years to Slow Down Inflation and Deliver Price Stability. Here’s What That Means for Restaurant Stocks. (finance.yahoo.com)
09-18 Y Combinator’s Paul Graham Says AI Companies Are Measuring Inference the Wrong Way — ‘You Get More Problem-Solving Per Token as Models Improve’ (finance.yahoo.com)
09:02 Republican candidates in some of the toughest House and Senate races have begun to break from President Trump on central parts of his agenda (on.wsj.com)
08:01 Patients are suing GLP-1 drugmakers over the risk of sudden vision loss. The little-discussed potential risk of popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs is on warning labels outside of the U.S. (on.wsj.com)
06:02 President Trump said the U.S. and Denmark reached an agreement that allows for more American forces in Greenland and prevents certain nations from establishing a military foothold (on.wsj.com)
06:15 Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company’s AI autonomously committing such an act (on.wsj.com)
05:42 President Trump said that Donald Trump Jr. reimbursed a Russian businessman who financed his son’s lavish wedding afterparty in the Bahamas earlier this year (on.wsj.com)
05:06 Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received more than 250,000 worth of free flights to Fiji and Greece as well as use of a vacation home in Washington, D.C. (on.wsj.com)
03:20 President Trump said on Friday he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House over their coverage of his administration (on.wsj.com)
09-18 Democrats think they’re expanding the number of seats they could get in November. But there’s a deluge of ad spending coming from the other side. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
01:34 I used to think getting healthier required more discipline. Moving abroad showed me I actually needed a change of scene. (www.businessinsider.com)
09-18 Morgan Stanley exec Lindsey Coleman shares her coffee-meeting request to tell who is serious about a Wall Street career (www.businessinsider.com)
02:10 Ukraine’s ‘Operation Vivaldi’ pushed Russian forces back around Lyman in the Donbas. Now both armies are massing troops for the next battles farther south. (news.google.com)
02:00 Grandmaster Flash on “Birth of a Culture” - The d.j. explains how he worked out some of the turntable innovations that led to hip-hop as we know it, and why the Furious Five’s biggest hit was the beginning of the end. (www.newyorker.com)
02:00 Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing” - The New Yorker staff writer examines America’s unique problem with gun violence, and why he thinks under-policing is at the root of our problem. (www.newyorker.com)
01:04 The New Lucy Letby Report Misses the Point - The Thirlwall Inquiry looked at why the nurse wasn’t prevented from murdering babies. But it didn’t address the question of whether she had actually done so. (www.newyorker.com)
09-18 A Never Trumper and a Democrat on Beating MAGA for Good - Sarah Longwell’s “How to Eat an Elephant” and Adam Jentleson’s “Supermajority” grapple with how to defeat Trumpism. (www.newyorker.com)
09-18 The Sheep That Stop Wildfires - Herds of livestock are munching through overgrown, hard-to-reach vegetation that could otherwise become fuel for firestorms. (www.newyorker.com)
09-18 Why China Isn’t Getting Existential About A.I. - China’s fears about the technology are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S. What does that mean for international coöperation? (www.newyorker.com)
09-18 New York Film Festival’s World of Cinema - Also: the punk-rock ruckus of Bikini Kill, New York City Ballet’s fall season, the Australian solo comedy “Garry Starr: Classic Penguins,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
09-18 What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom - Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech backlash of today. (www.newyorker.com)
09-18 Is Beef the Next Internal-Combustion Engine? - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., eats it every day, but more Americans, faced with rising prices and another climate warning, might want something else for dinner. (www.newyorker.com)
09-18 The New Yorker’s Coverage of the 2026 National Book Award Fiction Nominees - Marlon James, Louise Erdrich, Edwidge Danticat, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
09-17 That Back-to-School Feeling - With teachers and students returning to the classroom, the hosts of Critics at Large reflect on the art of education itself. (www.newyorker.com)
09-17 Your Parents’ Fall TV Preview - Have you considered “Six Hours a Day of MSNBC” on MS NOW (or Fox News, depending on your specific parents)? (www.newyorker.com)
09-17 Donald Trump Returns to the U.N. Amid the Collapse of the Old Order - Trump is at the heart of this geopolitical moment, catalytic in his alliance-fraying bullying, unprovoked warmongering, and protectionist demagoguery. (www.newyorker.com)
09-17 How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us? - Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings? (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy - Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out all other possibilities. (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 “The History of Concrete” Humanizes the Material World - John Wilson’s whimsical first documentary feature reveals the social essence, and the political stakes, of the ubiquitous stuff of construction. (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 My Weekend with an A.I. Agent - What agentic A.I. is best at is optimizing processes that, not too long ago, were presented as the already maximally optimized version of a once analog experience. (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 The Long Doomsday of A.I. - After industry-wide calls for regulation, what’s concerning isn’t that the problems are real. It’s that there are no guaranteed solutions. (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 Bob Mackie Was Serious About Sequins - The designer, known for dressing Carol Burnett, Cher, and Elton John in feathers and fringe, excelled at Old Hollywood craftsmanship. (www.newyorker.com)