This S&P 500 Stock Pays a 2.67% Dividend Yield and Has Increased Its Payout in 17 Straight Years. Here''s Why None of This Matters to Investors as Much as the Federal Reserve and Kevin Warsh. (finance.yahoo.com)
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Dropped a 9-Word Warning: "Margin Debt Is the Highest It Has Ever Been." Should Investors Be Worried? (finance.yahoo.com)
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday said Canada would impose dollar-for-dollar tariffs on U.S. goods, in retaliation for U.S. tariffs on Canadian exports (on.wsj.com)
Ashley Hinson has never lost an election. Now, the Republican congresswoman faces a strong challenger in her bid for Iowa’s open Senate seat, a race Democrats hope to win. (on.wsj.com)
Rare- and used-book sellers are enjoying booming sales but fretting over whether irreplaceable books are being destroyed to train artificial-intelligence models (on.wsj.com)
Trade talks between the U.S. and Canada broke down on Friday, officials from both countries said, paving the way for the U.S. to impose 50% tariffs on about 20 billion worth of Canadian goods and risking an all-out trade war (on.wsj.com)
After its COVID success, Moderna endured years of falling vaccine sales, a plummeting stock price and attacks on its science. Now, its melanoma vaccine data notched a much-needed win for the company. (on.wsj.com)
Democrats are readying multifront investigations into the Trump administration should they win the House majority in November, and the White House is gearing up for an onslaught of subpoenas (on.wsj.com)
President Trump made a personal pitch to South Carolinians to back Sen. Darline Graham in the Republican runoff primary election next week—a high-profile test of his powers to sway GOP voters (on.wsj.com)
What Natalie Harp Carries - Trump’s devoted aide, who is said to follow the President around with a printer, does not seem to be driven by the conventional desires for wealth and power. (www.newyorker.com)
Why People Want to Believe the Lindsay Clancy Conspiracy Theories - Mistrust about the case stems from understandable anger and sorrow at the ways women in extremis aren’t believed. (www.newyorker.com)
Melissa Auf der Maur’s Chronicle of Nineties Rock - The photographer, who played bass for Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, captured a moment in which one generation’s subculture became the next generation’s mainstream. (www.newyorker.com)
General David Petraeus on the New Rules of War - How drones and asymmetric warfare are upending the battlefield and what the U.S. military can do to adapt. (www.newyorker.com)
Jessica Tarlov, a Lonely Liberal on Fox News’ “The Five” - Tarlov occupies the hot seat on a panel of diehard conservatives, arguing for liberal values and rousing the ire of the President, who has encouraged Fox to fire her. (www.newyorker.com)
Jon Lovett Answers Your Questions - The “Pod Save America” host answers listeners’ questions about the 2026 midterm elections and what they tell us about the 2028 Presidential race. (www.newyorker.com)
A Political Awakening in Arab America - A Midwestern Muslim family’s story of immigration, assimilation, and how one year changed the life of its youngest son. (www.newyorker.com)
Should You Believe in Fate? - We’d be happier, perhaps, if we found meaning not through abstractions but through the physical things around us. (www.newyorker.com)
The Boom of the Sex-Recession Movie - In films like “One Night Only” and “I Want Your Sex,” our prudish age becomes the scene of a crime. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Smithsonian Really Trying to Destroy America? - Trump claims that the institution has fallen into the hands of Marxist radicals. A stroll through the exhibitions suggests otherwise. (www.newyorker.com)
A “12 Inch Pianist” Walks Into a Bar - Lucas Ansel’s stop-motion short reveals a few fellow-drinkers’ deepest desires in this reimagined Shouts & Murmurs classic. (www.newyorker.com)
After Six Months of War, Trump Is Still Losing to Iran - The conflict marks a “precipitous collapse of American power and American prestige.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Podcast That’s Charting a Post-Trump Future - “America, Actually,” a new offering from Vox, is trying to talk about politics without talking about the President. Is that even possible? (www.newyorker.com)
What Your Swimwear Says About You - Yellow polka-dot bikini: you were deeply affected by a Yoplait Light commercial as a youth and consider this suit to be the physical manifestation of confidence. (www.newyorker.com)
“Every Weekday at 4:45 P.M.,” by Libby Flores - In the delicious heat, a summer breeze came and they fought as the woman sucked her ice cream through the bottom of her cone. (www.newyorker.com)
Critics’ Cult Classics: Emily Nussbaum on “Slings & Arrows” - The New Yorker writer sings the praises of a little-known Canadian television series set at a Shakespeare festival—which happens to be her favorite show of all time. (www.newyorker.com)
The Shifting Meaning of “Moderate” - Political labels can be useful shorthand. But some doubt how much they tell us about what draws voters to candidates. (www.newyorker.com)
The Real Meaning of the Jason Arday Scandal - In a young Black professor’s academic misconduct, a “race-realist” found a “hook for a story.” (www.newyorker.com)