02:12 Disney Agrees to 10M Civil Penalty and Injunction for Alleged Violations of Children’s Privacy Laws - Department of Justice (.gov) (news.google.com)
12-30 A Mexican Couple in California Plans to Self-Deport—and Leave Their Kids Behind - Can undocumented parents elude ICE capture for one more year, until their youngest turns eighteen? (www.newyorker.com)
12-30 Finishing School: Hands Off Our Pencils - Given the wild fluctuations in the market, I did what anyone with a crippling dependence on pencils would do: I took inventory. (www.newyorker.com)
12-29 A Reckoning for the Stalled Gaza Peace Plan - A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may determine whether the agreement advances—or hardens into a permanent order. (www.newyorker.com)
12-28 “The Ice-Skater,” by Kanak Kapur - The man from Kabul had warned about the number of men assigned to each room. “I won’t lie to you,” he had said. “You’ll be uncomfortable. You’ll have to adjust.” (www.newyorker.com)
12-27 The Weirdly Refreshing Honesty of the Oscars of TikTok - The app might wreak havoc on users’ mental health, but there was a satisfying frankness at the gathering about the fact that everything in life is now fodder for content. (www.newyorker.com)
12-27 Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025 - This was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered. (www.newyorker.com)
12-25 “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Edited by Someone in Couples Therapy - Oh, I won’t ask for much this Christmas, mainly because “asking” suggests that you’re doing me a favor, when, in actuality, I’m setting some healthy boundaries. (www.newyorker.com)
12-25 How Should We Approach A.I. in 2026? - The rapid normalization of artificial intelligence is forcing a reckoning with how much of the future is being shaped by hype rather than utility. (www.newyorker.com)
12-24 What Can Conversion Memoirs Tell Us? - Two recent books follow young religious converts down the winding back roads of belief. (www.newyorker.com)
12-24 Thelma Golden on the Literature of Harlem - The director of the Studio Museum chooses some of her most beloved books about the neighborhood—both as a place and as an anchor for Black cultural consciousness. (www.newyorker.com)
12-24 Trump, Epstein, and the Women - The Epstein files are a vast trove of documents and will take time to absorb, but Trump made his attitude about women clear long ago. (www.newyorker.com)
12-24 “No Other Choice” Eliminates the Competition with Style - In Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s crime novel, Lee Byung-hun plays a newly laid-off executive who launches his own campaign of mass termination. (www.newyorker.com)