admin How Americans Caught Gold Fever Again
Soaring gold prices, viral panning influencers, gold-rush shows on Discovery TV, and Trump’s gold obsession have ignited a craze for…
Do We Think Too Much About the Future?
Joshua Rothman writes about the future and considers whether the concept is a flawed idea.
The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
Jill Lepore chronicles the rise of machine-generated writing, from a Hollywood plot-writing grift and Cold War computer poetry to the…
What the Gerrymandering Wars Mean for the Midterms—and 2028
Isaac Chotiner interviews Nate Cohn, the New York Times’ chief political analyst, about whether the Democrats can match the G.O.P.…
The Generation That Will Always Be Too Young to Smoke
Sam Kriss writes about a new law in the U.K. that bars young people from buying cigarettes for the rest…
The Fastball Has Never Been Faster
Pitchers like Jacob Misiorowski are throwing harder than ever, a result of modern baseball’s pitching development. But what does that…
The New Yorker’s Ava Kofman Wins a 2026 National Magazine Award
The New Yorker announces that the staff writer Ava Kofman has received the 2026 National Magazine Award for Profile Writing,…
Where Are the Tariff Refunds for American Consumers?
The Trump Administration has started repaying more than a hundred and fifty billion dollars to companies that paid its import…
The Age of “Intentional” Drinking
Americans are losing their appetite for booze. Could the mini Martini lure them back? Hannah Goldfield interviews experts including Keith…
The Hollow Trickery of “The Wizard of the Kremlin”
Richard Brody on Olivier Assayas’s film “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” starring Paul Dano, about an adviser to Vladimir Putin.