The Michael Kelly Award from The Atlantic is Awarded to Drew Philp for “There Will Be No Mercy” published in The Atavist Magazine (www.theatlantic.com)
Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company’s AI autonomously committing such an act (on.wsj.com)
President Trump said that Donald Trump Jr. reimbursed a Russian businessman who financed his son’s lavish wedding afterparty in the Bahamas earlier this year (on.wsj.com)
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received more than 250,000 worth of free flights to Fiji and Greece as well as use of a vacation home in Washington, D.C. (on.wsj.com)
Democrats think they’re expanding the number of seats they could get in November. But there’s a deluge of ad spending coming from the other side. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
The trillion-dollar question: Did Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh really seek Trump’s blessing to hike rates? Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, who represents a red-leaning South Florida district, rolled out a straight-to-camera ad breaking with Trump on his immigration enforcement tactics (on.wsj.com)
House lawmakers are heading home until after the elections, getting an early dismissal despite concerns about gas prices and AI—and criticism that Congress just isn’t doing its job (on.wsj.com)
One pincer stalled a year ago, the other has just been broken near Kostiantynivka—Russia''s ring will not close, Ukrainian commander says (news.google.com)
Grandmaster Flash on “Birth of a Culture” - The d.j. explains how he worked out some of the turntable innovations that led to hip-hop as we know it, and why the Furious Five’s biggest hit was the beginning of the end. (www.newyorker.com)
Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing” - The New Yorker staff writer examines America’s unique problem with gun violence, and why he thinks under-policing is at the root of our problem. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Lucy Letby Report Misses the Point - The Thirlwall Inquiry looked at why the nurse wasn’t prevented from murdering babies. But it didn’t address the question of whether she had actually done so. (www.newyorker.com)
A Never Trumper and a Democrat on Beating MAGA for Good - Sarah Longwell’s “How to Eat an Elephant” and Adam Jentleson’s “Supermajority” grapple with how to defeat Trumpism. (www.newyorker.com)
The Sheep That Stop Wildfires - Herds of livestock are munching through overgrown, hard-to-reach vegetation that could otherwise become fuel for firestorms. (www.newyorker.com)
Why China Isn’t Getting Existential About A.I. - China’s fears about the technology are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S. What does that mean for international coöperation? (www.newyorker.com)
New York Film Festival’s World of Cinema - Also: the punk-rock ruckus of Bikini Kill, New York City Ballet’s fall season, the Australian solo comedy “Garry Starr: Classic Penguins,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom - Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech backlash of today. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Beef the Next Internal-Combustion Engine? - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., eats it every day, but more Americans, faced with rising prices and another climate warning, might want something else for dinner. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Yorker’s Coverage of the 2026 National Book Award Fiction Nominees - Marlon James, Louise Erdrich, Edwidge Danticat, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
That Back-to-School Feeling - With teachers and students returning to the classroom, the hosts of Critics at Large reflect on the art of education itself. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Parents’ Fall TV Preview - Have you considered “Six Hours a Day of MSNBC” on MS NOW (or Fox News, depending on your specific parents)? (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Returns to the U.N. Amid the Collapse of the Old Order - Trump is at the heart of this geopolitical moment, catalytic in his alliance-fraying bullying, unprovoked warmongering, and protectionist demagoguery. (www.newyorker.com)
How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us? - Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings? (www.newyorker.com)
The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy - Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out all other possibilities. (www.newyorker.com)
“The History of Concrete” Humanizes the Material World - John Wilson’s whimsical first documentary feature reveals the social essence, and the political stakes, of the ubiquitous stuff of construction. (www.newyorker.com)
My Weekend with an A.I. Agent - What agentic A.I. is best at is optimizing processes that, not too long ago, were presented as the already maximally optimized version of a once analog experience. (www.newyorker.com)
The Long Doomsday of A.I. - After industry-wide calls for regulation, what’s concerning isn’t that the problems are real. It’s that there are no guaranteed solutions. (www.newyorker.com)
Bob Mackie Was Serious About Sequins - The designer, known for dressing Carol Burnett, Cher, and Elton John in feathers and fringe, excelled at Old Hollywood craftsmanship. (www.newyorker.com)