08:30 What the Democrats Can Learn from MAGA - Republicans have built local networks that outlast campaigns. Can Democrats turn protest energy into lasting power? (www.newyorker.com)
05:00 How to Figure Out Your Life - Oliver Burkeman, the author of several books about getting comfortable with imperfection, discusses some books that have shaped his thinking about how to live a less harried, more enchanted life. (www.newyorker.com)
02:26 April Bernard Reads John Ashbery - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “A Worldly Country,” by John Ashbery, and her own poem “Beagle or Something." (www.newyorker.com)
01-28 The Cruel Conditions of ICE’s Mojave Desert Detention Center - How immigration authorities have weaponized medical neglect to encourage self-deportations. (www.newyorker.com)
01-28 The Forecast Wars on Weather Twitter - Traditional meteorologists speak in potentialities and probabilities. A new type of social-media influencer takes a different approach, exaggerating possibilities and fomenting hype in the lead-up to a big storm. (www.newyorker.com)
01-28 The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises” - Although Ernest Hemingway’s novel makes positive claims about what one should be—brave, admiring of nature and grace—its architecture is held up primarily by hatred. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 The Beckhams’ Very Public Family Meltdown - They put their births and marriages in the spotlight, selling tabloid photos and making Netflix documentaries. Would their estrangement be any different? (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 Why Shouldn’t We Let Demons Do Homework? - Using a demon is not cheating. Cheating is pawning off somebody else’s work as your own. A demon is not “somebody.” A demon is a being of pure malice. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 Why an Agnostic Animal-Rights Activist Went to Seminary - Wayne Hsiung has gone to court and done jail time to improve the lives of animals. Now he’s going to church. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 TV Review: “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Streaming on HBO - There’s a lot of grime and grunting, but the show is saved by its two endearing leads. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 Do Federal Officials Really Have “Absolute Immunity”? - After killings by ICE and Border Patrol in Minneapolis, a legal expert discusses how agents might be held to account by local authorities. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 Revisiting Minnesota’s “Open House” Exhibition in the Age of ICE - Long before the federal onslaught, a Twin Cities museum showed what it meant to find a home in America. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 Alex Honnold and Netflix Team Up for a Corporatized “Free Solo” - In “Skyscraper Live,” the climber once again put his life on the line, but it was mainly the viewers who were on edge. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 Maybe the United States Can Be One of Mark Carney’s “Middle Powers” - The Canadian Prime Minister offers the possibility of a calmer future. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 How Shinzo Abe’s Assassination Brought the Moonies Back Into the Limelight - A shocking act of political violence exposed the cult’s deep influence. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizing—and Infighting - Republicans have become adept at creating broad coalitions in which supporting Trump is the only requirement. Democrats get tied up with litmus tests. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 Run-DMC’s School of Thought - Darryl (DMC) McDaniels dropped in on his old Queens elementary school to talk music with second graders, who weren’t too sure who he was. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 “Ragtime” Cases the Landmark It Almost Blew Up - The cast of the musical, now at Lincoln Center, visits the Morgan Library to check out all the treasures that would have been lost if the plot had gone another way. (www.newyorker.com)