A company in the UK offering rape testing kits faces widespread criticism – but shouldn’t we ask why it exists at all? Zoe Williams (www.theguardian.com)
He Needs 40,000 for a New Roof. Pulling It From His IRA Would Tax His Social Security and Spike His Medicare. Borrowing Against the House Wouldn’t. (finance.yahoo.com)
Here''s How Much Apple Stock Has to Gain to Overtake Nvidia as the Most Valuable Company in the World. Hint: It Could Happen by the Time You Read This. (finance.yahoo.com)
My mom''s long-term care has cost almost 400,000. This is after we spent 45,000 converting a guest house on our property for her. (www.businessinsider.com)
Iran vows not a ‘single drop’ of oil or gas will pass strait of Hormuz as US carries out ninth night of strikes – Middle East crisis live (news.google.com)
David Rothenberg Arrives at the Punch Line - The ninety-two-year-old theatre producer and prison activist stopped by 54 Below to make a career pivot—standup comedy, dishing on Charles Laughton and Peggy Lee. (www.newyorker.com)
The Man Who Green-Lighted Trump’s Ballroom - Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., a Presidential sidekick from Atlanta and a triumphal-arch enthusiast, is just back from Russia, where he hung out with Putin and Steven Seagal. (www.newyorker.com)
María Corina Machado’s Opposition in Exile - The Venezuelan politician hoped to become her country’s leader with help from the U.S. The Trump Administration had other priorities. (www.newyorker.com)
How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran - Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu. (www.newyorker.com)
One Man’s Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail - In 2016, Steve Eimers’s daughter died when she hit a defective guardrail. Then he learned that the country was full of them. (www.newyorker.com)
Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die - When cultural preservationists cast every extinction as murder, they can ignore speakers’ decisions—and the costs of keeping a fading tongue alive. (www.newyorker.com)
The Divine Red-Carpet Looks of “The Odyssey” Press Tour - Zendaya, with the help of the unerring instincts of her stylist Law Roach, led the way as she and her castmates put on a goddess-themed celebration of high fashion. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism Save the U.K.’s Center Left? - With a populist touch, and a focus on affordability and raising up left-behind communities, Britain’s new Prime Minister has drawn comparisons to Zohran Mamdani. (www.newyorker.com)
Il Paradiso Italiano di Julian Schnabel - At his pink palazzo, in the West Village, the artist packs up paintings for a Pace exhibit and discusses his new movie, about Dante—produced by, and guest-starring, Martin Scorsese. (www.newyorker.com)
Florentina Holzinger’s Naked Ambition - The artist’s extreme use of the body has caused viewers to puke, faint, and leave her shows. At the Venice Biennale, though, her vision has made her a star. (www.newyorker.com)
I Give My Kid the Talk - Don’t believe what the other kids have to say; Dad is the one to tell you about the importance of Stephen Sondheim. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Beach Vacation Became a Country-Music Trope - The genre extolls the virtue of staying close to your home town. “Five O’Clock Somewhere” was part of a wave of hits that envisioned an escape to the seaside. (www.newyorker.com)
Eric Bogosian’s Killer Gig - The actor plays a journalist in AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire.” In the story’s latest installment, his beat has become a lot bloodier. (www.newyorker.com)
“Testing,” by Min Jin Lee - In less than twenty-four hours, he would take the Suneung again, and, for the past three years, he had done little but sleep, eat, and study for this exam. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Sanwits - Sanwits, in the old Rowdy Rooster flagship spot, serves a glorious mashup of American sandwich styles and frank Filipino flavors. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s War on Journalists - The recent subpoenas of reporters make clear that the President is trying to threaten the press. Few protections are in place to stop him. (www.newyorker.com)
The Voice of Google - I cracked the code for generating corpspeak with personality. Then I lost faith in what the company was selling. (www.newyorker.com)