09-17 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian''s Regular Press Conference on September 17, 2025_Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People''s Republic of China (news.google.com)
08:14 Together for Palestine concert: Benedict Cumberbatch, Damon Albarn and Neneh Cherry take stage at galvanising and star-studded gig for Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
11:59 How Bad Is It?: Political Violence in the U.S., and What We Can Learn from Brazil - Brazil’s reckoning with authoritarianism may hold lessons for a U.S. system under strain. (www.newyorker.com)
04:00 Great Gay Novels Recommended by the Director of “The History of Sound” - Oliver Hermanus—whose latest film stars Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor—recommends three books by queer writers who hid their sexualities. (www.newyorker.com)
09-17 Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson Came from the Same Warped Online Worlds - The right-wing activist and his alleged assassin were both creatures of a digital ecosystem that rewards viral engagement at all costs. (www.newyorker.com)
09-17 What the Video of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Might Do - Parents have less and less control over what their children see. Our children will likely understand history, and the world, very differently as a result. (www.newyorker.com)
09-17 How Samin Nosrat Learned to Love the Recipe - The chef’s first book, “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” famously resisted the form. Her follow-up, “Good Things,” reflects a new appreciation for what it can teach us. (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 White House Job Openings - The President’s driver should be able to go vroom-vroom fast without getting scared, and must be at least sixteen years old with a valid driver’s license. (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 Your First Call After You Shoot Someone - In the era of Stand Your Ground, self-defense insurance is increasingly popular. Does it promote gun violence? (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 Can You Really Live One Day at a Time? - Productivity culture encourages us to live inside our tasks and projects. But nature offers its own organizational system. (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 Donald Trump’s Assault on Disability Rights - Federal offices and programs that insure equal treatment are being shuttered and scaled back. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 How Far Could Donald Trump’s Assault on the Federal Reserve Go? - Some central-bank veterans are concerned about a scenario in which the President’s appointees gain effective control of the institution and end its independence. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 New Yorker Covers, Brought to Life! - To celebrate the magazine’s hundredth anniversary, photographers collaborated with Spike Lee, Julia Garner, Sadie Sink, and other notable figures to update covers from the archive. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 The U.S. Government’s Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García - The Trump Administration’s maneuvers are rising to a political prosecution. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 Bouldering Beside the Harlem River Drive - After learning to climb by scaling his family’s Park Slope town house, a nineteen-year-old likes to tackle the ledges of upper Manhattan, unless the cops get in the way. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance - The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer? (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 How Other Things End - With apologies to T. S. Eliot, clocking the dénouement of your kid’s bedtime ritual, the energy-drink craze, and your career, to name a few. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 Debbie Gibson’s Pavarotti Period - The eighties pop princess returns to the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang in the Children’s Chorus, and shows off her new memoir, “Eternally Electric.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican Homecoming - The Latin-trap performer is probably the most important pop musician of our time. Key to his success is that the bigger he gets, the more local he seems. (www.newyorker.com)