From the strait of Hormuz to the North Sea, a global maritime war rages around us – and more than the price of oil is at stake Simon Tisdall (www.theguardian.com)
Jensen Huang Signed Toyota, Fanuc, Kioxia, and 5 Other Japanese Industrial Giants Into Nvidia''s Physical AI Coalition This Week. Nvidia Has 1 Trillion in Confirmed Demand Through 2027. (finance.yahoo.com)
My dad came to live with me after getting sick, and my sister moved in to help. His long-term care costs us over 4,000 a month. (www.businessinsider.com)
Which Way Should the Democratic Party Go Now? - It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging? (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Somssi - Somssi, from a veteran of the restaurant group behind Atomix, knows how to reel you in without trying too hard. (www.newyorker.com)
“Padam Padam” Separates the Party People from the Homebodies - Kylie Minogue’s 2023 hit belongs to a category of solid, danceable pop music that barely penetrates the eardrums of self-professed thirtysomething old folks. (www.newyorker.com)
Gregg Araki Thinks It’s Good to Get Your Heart Broken - The director of “I Want Your Sex” discusses whether Gen Z is having enough of it, casting Charli XCX and Johnny Knoxville, and the importance of “weird, scary, confusing experiences.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Rise of the “Scenario,” a Trendy Way of Forecasting our Dystopian Future - In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future? (www.newyorker.com)
Whoopi Goldberg Was and Always Will Be the Whole Show - Her eponymous one-woman show was the seed of her Hollywood stardom, which a new revival now frames as the source of something matrilineal, passed down to two generations of Black actresses. (www.newyorker.com)
One Refugee’s Journey Through ICE Detention - In 2025, ICE began detaining people at immigration hearings, an unprecedented step. The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer shares the story of one detainee whose life was turned upside down. (www.newyorker.com)
A Democrat and a Republican in Congress on the Blowback from Mass Detention - The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer speaks with two lawmakers in Congress about the immigration crackdown: the Democrat Jason Crow, of Colorado, and the Republican Maria Salazar, of Florida. (www.newyorker.com)
The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity - How much of the former Senate candidate’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war? (www.newyorker.com)
The White House Press Corps in the Second Trump Era - Kent Nishimura’s photographs capture the backstage labor that allows the Trump show to go on. (www.newyorker.com)
Julio Torres’s Sea Wench, Qween Jean at Little Island - Also: Flaco the Owl gets a documentary, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard play “The Gin Game,” Broken Social Scene and friends drop in on Brooklyn, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Kinky Comedy of “I Want Your Sex” - In Gregg Araki’s film, a B.D.S.M. workplace relationship opens up a cross-generational debate about carnal mores. (www.newyorker.com)
Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea - The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system. (www.newyorker.com)
The Golden Age of the American Idiot - A new game show features celebrities competing for the title of “Nation’s Dumbest.” How did stupidity become a badge of honor? (www.newyorker.com)
Jane Wickline Is Down to Clown in “Dukes” - The “S.N.L.” cast member partners with Liva Pierce in a musical revue about best friends with bad jobs and no girlfriends. (www.newyorker.com)