12-02 2025 Understanding China Conference Opens in Guangzhou: Exploring Chinese Modernization Through the Lens of the 15th Five-Year Plan (news.google.com)
01:30 Johnson pins responsibility for second strike on alleged drug boat on admiral as Pentagon says strikes will continue - US politics live (www.theguardian.com)
12-02 Book Review: Olivia Nuzzi’s “American Canto” - Across social media, definitely. In her new memoir, “American Canto,” not so much. (www.newyorker.com)
12-02 Now Watch Me Read - “Performative reading” has gained a curious notoriety online. Is it a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word? (www.newyorker.com)
12-02 When to Go to the Hospital for Childbirth - Nausea can be a sign that labor is approaching, but it’s also a sign of so many other things—reading the news, for example. (www.newyorker.com)
12-02 The Best Podcasts of 2025 - Some of the medium’s all-time best shows ended, but a crop of new contenders is keeping meaningful audio alive. (www.newyorker.com)
12-02 The Dishonorable Strikes on Venezuelan Boats - New reporting suggests that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated multiple rules of war. (www.newyorker.com)
12-02 The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order - A former military judge on the Trump Administration’s contradictory—and likely unlawful—justifications for its Caribbean bombing campaign. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 Donna Lieberman Is at the Wheel - The head of the New York Civil Liberties Union doesn’t only lead the fight against injustice. She can also make you a great pottery bowl. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 What Can Economists Agree on These Days? - A new book, “The London Consensus,” offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 Tartuffe Times Two - Matthew Broderick and André De Shields have both undertaken Molière’s con-man character. They feel he has a few things in common with a certain orange President. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe - Is the race to create ever more lavish spectator offerings in America’s largest entertainment venues changing the fan experience? (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 What Makes Goethe So Special? - The German poet’s dauntingly eclectic accomplishments were founded on a tireless interrogation of how a life should be lived. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Susanna Wolff’s Shouts & Murmurs piece about child-led parenting, Molly Fischer’s profile of Costco, and Cal Revely-Calder’s review of Paul Kingsnorth’s book “Against the Machine.” (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 TV Review: Tim Robinson’s “The Chair Company,” on HBO - The comedian’s new HBO series is full of characters who possess their own sparks of madness. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 How to Make the Perfect Partner in 18 Easy A.I. Prompts - Generate yourself as a [age] [gender] who sounds like [parental figure or lost loved one] mixed with [favorite entertainer]. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 Hey, Kids! Get Yer Epstein Files Activity Fun Page! - Maybe the Justice Department should try a Word Search puzzle and a Connect the Dots. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 When Participating in Politics Puts Your Life at Risk - During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem. Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 The High-Born Rebel Who Took Up the Cause of the Commoner - A new biography details the secrets and scandals of the Mitfords, a notorious family of aristocrats—and of the one sister who broke away from the rest. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 The Best Albums of 2025 - There are plenty of albums that might have made the cut on a different day. But good list-making requires hubris, constraint. A moment of wild and fearless conviction. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language - In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel over identity, belonging, and the sound of authenticity. (www.newyorker.com)
12-01 “Blue Baby,” by Mary Jo Salter - “You thought yourself lucky as a sickly / child, who got to spend whole days // reading long books in bed.” (www.newyorker.com)