00:48 Bitcoin’s biggest booster Michael Saylor fights to stave off an 8 billion collapse and being the first major crypto domino to fall (news.google.com)
06:15 Why Is Trump Targeting Venezuela? - As Trump escalates his confrontation with Venezuela, questions mount about the line between counter-narcotics policy and a bid for regional dominance. (www.newyorker.com)
01:00 Samuel Beckett on the Couch - When the young writer began analysis with Wilfred R. Bion, both men were at the beginning of their careers. Their work together would have a transformative impact. (www.newyorker.com)
12-03 What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year - When Dragon Bravo ignited, in Grand Canyon National Park, officials decided to let it burn. Then the fire spread out of control. (www.newyorker.com)
12-03 “Train Dreams” Is Too Tidy to Go Off the Rails - In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly cut off from the modern world. (www.newyorker.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)