From the Spanish Peso to the US Dollar: China''s Role in Global Reserve Currencies - The Diplomat – Asia-Pacific Current Affairs Magazine (news.google.com)
OnePay and Synchrony to Launch New Industry-Leading Credit Card Program With Walmart; Credit Card to Be Powered by Mastercard and Set to Go Live This Fall (news.google.com)
Immigration Protests Threaten to Boil Over in Los Angeles - Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s deportation agenda met its fiercest resistance yet as federal officials conducted worksite raids and clashed with residents. (www.newyorker.com)
“Materialists” Is a Thoughtful Romantic Drama That Doesn’t Quite Add Up - In Celine Song’s follow-up to “Past Lives,” Dakota Johnson plays a New York City matchmaker caught between a designer Mr. Right and an impoverished ex-boyfriend. (www.newyorker.com)
Jacinda Ardern’s Overseas Experience - New Zealand’s ex-Prime Minister, an anti-Trump icon during COVID, revisited her impoverished New York days, when she slept on a couch and loitered at the Strand. (www.newyorker.com)
Gertrude Berg, the Forgotten Inventor of the Sitcom - Gertrude Berg’s “The Goldbergs” was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy. (www.newyorker.com)
The Meatpacking District Packs It In - As the market prepares to vacate the West Village, a veteran meatpacker recalls the area in the days of fat-slicked cobblestones, before the Whitney and the High Line. (www.newyorker.com)
Jenny Saville, the Body Artist - The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy. (www.newyorker.com)
The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age - How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale. (www.newyorker.com)
How Many Naomis Does It Take to Deconstruct “Doppelganger”? - Inspired by Naomi Klein’s best-seller about the headache of being confused with Naomi Wolf, Naomi Becker decided to have a Prospect Park picnic for her fellow-Naomis. (www.newyorker.com)
The Farmers Harmed by the Trump Administration - Four months ago, the government cut funding to agricultural labs. Kansas farmers and researchers say they can see the damage. (www.newyorker.com)
A Palestinian Doctor in Israel Treats People on Both Sides - Lina Qasem Hassan treated victims of October 7th. She also publicly condemned the war in Gaza—a stance that imperilled her job. (www.newyorker.com)
Redditors: Immigrants Keep Kidnapping My Wife!! - What to do about the human-trafficking illegal who absconds with my wife once a week and then drops her at home at dawn? Help! (www.newyorker.com)
A First Kiss from America’s First Woman in Space - Tam O’Shaughnessy came out as Sally Ride’s partner of twenty-seven years when she wrote of the relationship in Ride’s obituary. (www.newyorker.com)
How a Family Toy Business Is Fighting Donald Trump’s Tariffs - Despite securing an important court victory against the Administration, the Illinois businessman Rick Woldenberg knows that his battle with the White House is far from over. (www.newyorker.com)
“Girl on Girl,” Reviewed - “Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts. (www.newyorker.com)
How I Learned to Become an Intimacy Coördinator - At a sex-choreography workshop, a writer learned about Instant Chemistry exercises, penis pouches, and nudity riders to train for Hollywood’s most controversial job. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: What’s a Neighborhood Restaurant Without a Neighborhood? - Confidant is hoping to draw diners to the sprawling Brooklyn mall known as Industry City. (www.newyorker.com)
The Victims of the Trump Administration’s China-Bashing - A Cold War-era report is a reminder of how long suspicion has trailed people of Chinese descent in the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)