02:50 This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again (news.google.com)
01:48 The Bloody Lesson the Ayatollah Took from the Shah - With demonstrations in dozens of cities across Iran, Ali Khamenei and his regime are faced with a dilemma. (www.newyorker.com)
01-11 “Kim’s Game,” by Sadia Shepard - She didn’t much care for him or his video camera. But then, she’s never much cared for anthropologists. (www.newyorker.com)
01-11 Denmark Is Sick of Being Bullied by Trump - The U.S., once Denmark’s closest ally, is threatening to steal Greenland and attacking the country’s wind-power industry. Is this a permanent breakup? (www.newyorker.com)
01-11 Patrick Radden Keefe on Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” - Capote’s journalistic transgressions were serious, but there is no denying the awesome influence of his work. (www.newyorker.com)
01-11 Restaurant Review: Cove - With Cove, his fourth restaurant, in Hudson Square, the twenty-seven-year-old wunderkind chef cooks with a new expansiveness. (www.newyorker.com)
01-11 What Makes the Iranian Protests Different This Time - Unrest has spread across the Islamic Republic as it faces economic disaster at home and a profound weakening of its network of regional allies. (www.newyorker.com)
01-10 Lagos Is a Vortex of Energy - In a recent book, “Èkó,” the photographer Ollie Babajide Tikare captures the messiness and hope of the Nigerian city. (www.newyorker.com)
01-10 The Robot and the Philosopher - In the age of A.I., we endlessly debate what consciousness looks like. Can a camera see things more clearly? (www.newyorker.com)
01-10 TV Review: “Heated Rivalry,” Streaming on HBO Max and Crave - The show, a sexy romance between two closeted hockey players, began on a small Canadian streaming platform, but has become a huge, unexpected hit. (www.newyorker.com)
01-10 How an Attack on Obamacare Saved Abortion in Wyoming - In the most conservative state in the U.S., libertarianism can lead in surprising directions. (www.newyorker.com)
01-10 Donald Trump Was Never an Isolationist - He once defied the G.O.P. by blasting military interventions. But what looked like anti-interventionism is really a preference for power freed from the pretense of principle. (www.newyorker.com)
01-10 Is Donald Trump Creating the Conditions for Another World War? - “What you’re seeing both abroad and at home are completely optional conflicts created by the character of the President,” Jane Mayer says. (www.newyorker.com)
01-10 “Dead Man’s Wire” Is a Tangle of Loose Threads - In dramatizing a real-life hostage crisis from 1977, Gus Van Sant teases out enticing themes that remain undeveloped. (www.newyorker.com)
01-10 Minneapolis Reacts to ICE’s Killing of Renee Nicole Good - The city where George Floyd was murdered finds itself again at the epicenter of a national crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
01-10 Donald Trump’s New Brand of Imperialism - The historian Daniel Immerwahr says that Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.” (www.newyorker.com)
01-10 Does Every Marriage Need a Prenup? - The staff writer Jennifer Wilson explores why prenuptial agreements have boomed in popularity among millennial and Gen Z couples. (www.newyorker.com)
01-10 The Gospel According to Emily Henry - How the best-selling author of “People We Meet on Vacation” channelled her love of rom-coms—and her religious upbringing—into a new kind of romance novel. (www.newyorker.com)
01-09 The Zealous Voyagers of “Magellan” and “The Testament of Ann Lee” - In two portraits of seafaring religious zealots, the directors Lav Diaz and Mona Fastvold employ bold formal devices to hold their protagonists at a compelling remove. (www.newyorker.com)
01-09 Dances of the Georgian Court and Countryside - Also: Bang on a Can and St. Vincent in Richard Foreman’s “What to Wear,” the celestial folk of Cassandra Jenkins, Jennifer Wilson and Richard Brody on comfort in the cold weather, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
01-09 What “The Pitt” Taught Me About Being a Doctor - It’s as if the show’s creators absorbed every important conversation in health care today—and somehow transfigured it into good television. (www.newyorker.com)