SpaceX Is Down More Than 40% From All-Time Highs. Here''s What a 10,000 Investment Will Be Worth If Wall Street Analysts Are Correct (finance.yahoo.com)
Ukrainian soldier says the drone-filled ''zero line'' is so dangerous that troops sometimes have to wait a week just to move 300 meters (www.businessinsider.com)
Fairfield Porter’s Lush, Lonely Vision of the World - The painter was rich and cloistered, and used color like few others before or after him. (www.newyorker.com)
The Department of Labored Content - Trump’s Cabinet has joined TikTok, but the White House is about to learn that controlling the platform isn’t the same as being good at it. (www.newyorker.com)
Dear Pepper: How to Have Some of It All? - Liana Finck writes a humorous advice column about the choices a couple faces after having their first born. (www.newyorker.com)
The Sunlit Joylessness of Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie” - The new adaptation, though visually exquisite, swaps the story’s much-loved comfort for dutiful tedium. (www.newyorker.com)
Charli XCX and the Strokes Are (Sort of) Making Rock Music - Both artists have released new albums—“Music, Fashion, Film” and “Reality Awaits”—that seesaw between raw sincerity and punkish insouciance. (www.newyorker.com)
The Kids Are Kind of Alright - Recently, there has been much hand-wringing about downwardly mobile young adults living with their parents into their twenties or thirties. What’s really going on? (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Isolationism Is Losing the Great E.V. Race - The United States risks becoming a theme park of internal combustion, as the rest of the world moves on. (www.newyorker.com)
Bari Weiss Is On It - Our first goal, as with “60 Minutes,” is balance. Lake Mead has been on the north side of the Hoover Dam for too long. When we’re finished, it will be on the south side, too. (www.newyorker.com)
How Bots Took Over Our Lives - During the 2016 election, much of the country was introduced to the concept of internet bots for the first time. Now, just a decade later, it feels like they’re everywhere. (www.newyorker.com)
The Myth of the Food Desert - Policymakers have assumed that people with good options wouldn’t make bad choices. What if access was never the real problem? (www.newyorker.com)
Exit Memo - Following a review, I have decided to dissolve our relationship. This decision reflects a strategic realignment of my emotional resources and should not be interpreted as a comment on your over-all market value. (www.newyorker.com)
A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect - The majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men, a pattern that the gun-rights organization has spent decades denying. (www.newyorker.com)
“Tick Check,” by Michael Dickman - “A living freckle / That knows your name and knows / That it is spring and feels a kind of imaginary privacy.” (www.newyorker.com)
What Would It Mean to See a New Color? - Olo can be described as the “greenest green,” though it can never be captured by a camera. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision. (www.newyorker.com)
Fab Morvan Takes Back His Voice - Decades after Milli Vanilli’s lip-synching scandal, the singer is still reclaiming his legacy—with a documentary, an EP, and an almost-performance at Trump’s state fair. (www.newyorker.com)
Take Me Out to the Brainball Game - Hundreds of neurosurgeons gathered in Central Park for inter-hospital softball. Who took home the skull-shaped trophy? (www.newyorker.com)
Get Yer Statue of Liberty Here! - The Hamptons Fine Art Fair recently exhibited a ten-foot Lady Liberty. Noble, solemn, and—wait, how much? (www.newyorker.com)
John Leguizamo Is a Noble Fellow - The “Ice Age” actor steals Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” as a loyal swineherd to Matt Damon’s Odysseus. Back in New York, he bought the director a two-thousand-year-old thank-you gift. (www.newyorker.com)
Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief - What moves the star of “Jackass” to risk his life for our entertainment? A very serious investigation. (www.newyorker.com)
How Netanyahu’s Top General Became His Strongest Challenger - Gadi Eisenkot, whose view of war is shaped by the loss of his son, is, in manner and character, the anti-Bibi. (www.newyorker.com)