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Brave New World Dept.

Rise of the Nanomachines

Nanotechnology can already puncture cancer cells and drug-resistant bacteria. What will it do next?
Annals of Celebrity

Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure—Then Gave It a Violent Remix

How the hip-hop star’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy turned a beach house in Malibu, designed by the Japanese master Tadao Ando, into a ruin.
Brave New World Dept.

How CoComelon Captures Our Children’s Attention

The animation juggernaut is now streamed for billions of hours each year, including on Netflix and its own YouTube channel. Should we be worried about that?
Letter from Israel

How a Palestinian/Jewish Village in Israel Changed After October 7th

Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom was founded on a total belief in the power of dialogue. In the wake of Hamas’s attack and amid Israel’s war in Gaza, a “very loud silence” has fallen.

Commentary

Comment

A Striking Setback for India’s Narendra Modi

The truly disquieting thought was that the cult of personality around the Prime Minister had become suffocating and seemingly impossible to pierce—until now.
Daily Comment

What’s Behind Joe Biden’s Harsh New Executive Order on Immigration?

Neither the declining number of border arrivals nor the intransigence of congressional Republicans has improved the President’s standing on the issue.
Daily Comment

Speech Under the Shadow of Punishment

For years, universities have been less inclined to protect speech and quicker to sanction it. After this spring’s protests, it will be difficult to turn back.
Daily Comment

The Shadow of Tiananmen Falls on Hong Kong

The anniversary of the massacre coincides with verdicts in the trial of the pro-democracy activists known as the Hong Kong 47.

Conversations

Q. & A.

Is Biden’s Israel Policy Cynical or Naive?

Evaluating eight months of the President’s attempts to moderate Netanyahu’s bombing campaign in Gaza.
Q. & A.

What Israel’s Leaders Can’t—or Won’t—Say About Biden’s Ceasefire Announcement

Netanyahu’s chief rival, Benny Gantz, has issued an ultimatum for the Prime Minister to come up with an exit strategy for the war. What options are available to him?
Q. & A.

Why the Summer Could Be Disastrous for Ukraine

Amid a new advance by Russian forces, Zelensky faces enormous challenges in marshalling the equipment and the manpower necessary to keep them at bay.
Q. & A.

Is the Biden Campaign Running on False Hope?

Most polls show Donald Trump leading in swing states, but the Democratic Party strategist Simon Rosenberg believes the President’s chances are better than the surveys suggest.

From Our Columnists

Letter from Biden’s Washington

Happy Seventy-eighth Birthday, Mr. Ex-President

If ever there were a case for age-related diminishment of a candidate, Donald Trump is it.
Letter from the Southwest

The Decline of the Rio Grande

When the water runs out, there are no good options. One of the poorest regions in Texas faces an uncertain future.
Letter from Biden’s Washington

Fighting Trump on the Beaches

Biden’s fiery D Day speech in Normandy warns against the ex-President’s isolationism, while Trump is back home, targeting “the enemy within.”

More News

Fault Lines

We’re All Tiger Moms Now

Amy Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” prompted controversy thirteen years ago, but, among the upper middle class, variations on her parenting style have proliferated.
On Religion

An Unexpected Turn in the Evangelical Culture Wars

A proposal to ban Southern Baptist women from serving as pastors failed a two-thirds-majority vote, signalling that the far right has not yet consolidated its control of the Church.
Dispatch

Is Hunter Biden a Scapegoat or a Favored Son?

The portrait that has cohered at his Wilmington trial is of a precious commodity, a man whom others conspire lovingly to shield.
The Financial Page

The Immigration Story Nobody Is Talking About

The United States does need a more orderly border. It also needs more immigrants, who are critical to the country’s economic strength.
Annals of a Warming Planet

What Is the Opposite of Oil Drilling?

A growing industry aims to remove carbon from the atmosphere—but it’s still in its infancy, and greenhouse-gas emissions remain dangerously high.
Fault Lines

How Liberals Talk About Children

Many left-leaning, middle-class Americans speak of kids as though they are impositions, or means to an end.
The Financial Page

Car Wars

Is China’s electric-vehicle industry a threat to the U.S., or something to learn from?
The New Yorker Radio Hour

The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936

A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.