‘For this record, I took an edible and said, screw it’: jazz pianist Sullivan Fortner on confronting the trauma of Hurricane Katrina (www.theguardian.com)
Semis Surge, Michael Burry’s Shorts Feel the Pressure — But Don’t Expect Him to Run for Cover After His Latest “1987-Style” Crash Warning (finance.yahoo.com)
Taylor Farms said it was removing certain products including guacamoles and salsas from grocery shelves over concerns of salmonella contamination (on.wsj.com)
Downbeat economic views pose a danger for Republicans ahead of the midterms, leaving President Trump and his allies little time to regain their image as the party better suited to handle the economy (on.wsj.com)
Energy companies in the U.S.’s largest oil field have a plan to turn shrub-covered dirt into gold. It has nothing to do with oil—and everything to do with the data-center boom. (on.wsj.com)
Former President Joe Biden’s cancer has spread to “his bones and further,” his son Hunter Biden told the BBC, offering a new window into the aging former president’s life (on.wsj.com)
After notching a narrow victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, progressive Abdul El-Sayed is sticking to his support for Medicare for All (on.wsj.com)
Listen to a three-part podcast series from The Wall Street Journal about how AI mental-health chatbots are filling the rising demand for therapy, and the risks they may bring with them (on.wsj.com)
“They had every single thing about me”: In a growing ruse, swindlers pose as cops and use tremendous pressure to convince victims they must pay bail to avoid arrest for missing jury duty (on.wsj.com)
Jared Kushner’s ambitious plans to bring a luxury tourist resort to Albania have become complicated by local villagers, a suspected gangster—and the country’s murky communist past. (on.wsj.com)
SpaceX’s 250 billion swing in market value this past week put Elon Musk back in grind mode, having to execute on highflying promises, writes the WSJ’s @timkhiggins (on.wsj.com)
Inside Russia’s New Gulag - Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell. (www.newyorker.com)
Are You a Human? - From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative. (www.newyorker.com)
The Delusions of John Roberts - The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward. (www.newyorker.com)
“Cereus,” by Henri Cole - “After the box wine, the chicken thighs, and Nancy’s spice cake, / we lounged around talking of poetry, manure, and flowers.” (www.newyorker.com)
Eat the Lotus! - Times editors realized that, unless emergency procedures were initiated, the next day’s edition would contain not a single article about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”! (www.newyorker.com)
The Great Delegalization - More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away. (www.newyorker.com)
The World’s Borough Gets a New Slogan - In 2007, local artists painted a mural decreeing “Queens is the future.” Now the tagline is proudly displayed on welcome signs—right above the name of Astoria’s own Zohran Mamdani. (www.newyorker.com)
I Spy with My Little Eye . . . a Spy - Atlanta has more street cameras per capita than anywhere outside of China. On a walking tour of the city, can anti-surveillance vigilantes spot—and dodge—them all? (www.newyorker.com)
Pope.L’s Pleasing Refusal to Be Interpreted - Whether crawling through New York in a suit or painting with peanut butter, the artist remained loyal to his own impish curiosity. (www.newyorker.com)
What Does the Humbling of Leopold Aschenbrenner Mean for the A.I. Bubble? - The troubles of a twenty-four-year-old hedge-fund manager highlight some larger questions about the tech-driven stock boom. (www.newyorker.com)
The Many Masks of Dan Hoyle - The actor performs real people’s stories onstage—from loyal Trump voters to superfans of the band Phish. Now he’s bringing his “journalistic theatre” back to Joe’s Pub. (www.newyorker.com)
Hannah Einbinder’s Tricks and Treats - At a year-round Halloween store, the “Hacks” actress dishes on her new film, “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” in which she couples up with Gillian Anderson and is chased by a psycho killer. (www.newyorker.com)
“Horses,” by Garous Abdolmalekian (translated, from the Persian, by Siavash Saadlou) - “Whatever part of Tehran / I place a hand on, it is aching.” (www.newyorker.com)
The U.S. Helped Make Europe. Can It Break It? - Cold War policymakers pushed for a unified Continent. Their MAGA successors are trying to undo all that. (www.newyorker.com)
Hannah Arendt’s American Education - The writer’s political ideal—citizens appearing before one another as equals, engaging in dialogue and debate—had a counterpart in her spirited gatherings on the Upper West Side. (www.newyorker.com)
The Doulas Who Help Us Die - In an aging America, thousands of people have adopted a new vocation: supporting others as they confront the end of life. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Melanie Thernstrom’s profile of the gynecologist Sally Greenwald, Nikhil Krishnan’s review of “How to Kill a Language,” by Sophia Smith Galer, and Louis Menand’s piece about Andres Serrano’s photograph “Piss Christ” and America’s culture wars. (www.newyorker.com)
The Pyrrhic Victories of “House of the Dragon” - Season 3 of the “Game of Thrones” prequel ends with yet more bloodshed—and less of the charm that’s made Westeros worth visiting. (www.newyorker.com)
A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue - As Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, put it, “People really effing hate data centers.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Caro Claire Burke Wrote the Biggest Book of the Year - The début novelist behind “Yesteryear” on researching trad wives, wading into the discourse, and Anne Hathaway’s plans to adapt her best-seller for the screen. (www.newyorker.com)