Interview: China''s victory in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression inspired African independence, says Sao Tome and Principe''s former president (news.google.com)
Retiree At 67 Considers Going Back To Work: ''It Just Feels Like I''m Twiddling My Thumbs Waiting For Illness, Dementia, Or Death'' (finance.yahoo.com)
Yasmina Reza’s “Art” Feeds Our Appetite for Argument as Entertainment - Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris play friends who spar over almost everything. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Paper,” “The Lowdown,” and the Drama of Journalism - Reporters were the undisputed heroes of such classics as “All the President’s Men” and “Spotlight.” A new crop of shows—and a growing number of real-life skeptics and detractors—paint a different picture. (www.newyorker.com)
How Bad Is It?: Political Violence in the U.S., and What We Can Learn from Brazil - Brazil’s reckoning with authoritarianism may hold lessons for a U.S. system under strain. (www.newyorker.com)
Great Gay Novels Recommended by the Director of “The History of Sound” - Oliver Hermanus—whose latest film stars Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor—recommends three books by queer writers who hid their sexualities. (www.newyorker.com)
Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson Came from the Same Warped Online Worlds - The right-wing activist and his alleged assassin were both creatures of a digital ecosystem that rewards viral engagement at all costs. (www.newyorker.com)
What the Video of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Might Do - Parents have less and less control over what their children see. Our children will likely understand history, and the world, very differently as a result. (www.newyorker.com)
How Samin Nosrat Learned to Love the Recipe - The chef’s first book, “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” famously resisted the form. Her follow-up, “Good Things,” reflects a new appreciation for what it can teach us. (www.newyorker.com)
White House Job Openings - The President’s driver should be able to go vroom-vroom fast without getting scared, and must be at least sixteen years old with a valid driver’s license. (www.newyorker.com)
Your First Call After You Shoot Someone - In the era of Stand Your Ground, self-defense insurance is increasingly popular. Does it promote gun violence? (www.newyorker.com)
Can You Really Live One Day at a Time? - Productivity culture encourages us to live inside our tasks and projects. But nature offers its own organizational system. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Assault on Disability Rights - Federal offices and programs that insure equal treatment are being shuttered and scaled back. (www.newyorker.com)
How Far Could Donald Trump’s Assault on the Federal Reserve Go? - Some central-bank veterans are concerned about a scenario in which the President’s appointees gain effective control of the institution and end its independence. (www.newyorker.com)
New Yorker Covers, Brought to Life! - To celebrate the magazine’s hundredth anniversary, photographers collaborated with Spike Lee, Julia Garner, Sadie Sink, and other notable figures to update covers from the archive. (www.newyorker.com)
The U.S. Government’s Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García - The Trump Administration’s maneuvers are rising to a political prosecution. (www.newyorker.com)
Bouldering Beside the Harlem River Drive - After learning to climb by scaling his family’s Park Slope town house, a nineteen-year-old likes to tackle the ledges of upper Manhattan, unless the cops get in the way. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance - The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer? (www.newyorker.com)
How Other Things End - With apologies to T. S. Eliot, clocking the dénouement of your kid’s bedtime ritual, the energy-drink craze, and your career, to name a few. (www.newyorker.com)