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The cover for this week’s issue is “The Beautiful Game,” by Lorenzo Mattotti. See what’s inside: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/k_3m7n
Steven Spielberg’s latest film, “Disclosure Day,” is another alien-arrival story. In our Goings On newsletter, Richard Brody recommends three of the wider and wilder extra-terrestrial movies available to stream: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/OVZgA6
The human cost of DOGE’s war on U.S.A.I.D. may soon rise to seven figures, according to Atul Gawande. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ZWeb9A
Who will be blamed for the near-collapse of a midtown tower? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8RCPL0
A cartoon by Will McPhail. See more cartoons from the issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pKAO77
Edward Steed captures different scenes from around the city. See the full comic:newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Gqr3V2
The Great American State Fair, in Washington, D.C., featured booths for all 50 states—and one for the capital. Yet the District’s history, diversity, and fight for political representation were largely absent from the display. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/5jUrIm
Why does Chuck Schumer seem so opposed to Abdul El-Sayed’s candidacy? “I think he’s afraid that Michigan’s going to elect somebody he can’t control,” El-Sayed told Jason Zengerle. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/PCiqCY
Learn the ways of shopping-cart meditation, courtesy of New Yorker Humor. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oBOFQl
“There are many more isolated and psychologically fragile people with pets as their only anchor,” Jessamyn Kennedy, a pet-hospice veterinarian, says. How do we know when it’s time to say goodbye? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ma7aAj
If the Senate candidate Haley Stevens wants to return Michigan Democrats to their roots, Abdul El-Sayed is intent on taking his party—in Michigan and beyond—in a new and radically different direction. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lI_txQ
We constantly read other faces, and understand that ours, at the same time, will be interpreted. Plastic surgery, social media, and surveillance through facial recognition technology have changed our relationship to our faces—and to one another’s. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ZfF9U5
“Event planner,” “critic,” and other jobs for former screenwriters courtesy of New Yorker Humor. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VtFyLB
At least a dozen humanoid robots are scheduled to hit the market in the next year. Some manufacturers even want to put them in our homes. But experts are skeptical. “Around small pets, around small children, there’s still work to be done,” one says. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7kS2hU
“My entire life is just such an attempt at recompense. I am not doing too well,” the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai says. Read his full interview with Merve Emre. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/LxTJAg
A cartoon by Tom Toro. See more cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/77WAdK
In “Night Shift,” the photographer Ryan McGinley brings his travelling bacchanal home to the New York City’s streets. See more images: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fjtAGB
Steven Spielberg’s latest film, “Disclosure Day,” is another alien-arrival story. In our Goings On newsletter, Richard Brody recommends three of the wider and wilder extra-terrestrial movies available to stream: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/y157UJ
New Yorker writers share their favorite pocket reads—books that can be finished in a single sitting. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/EA09I6
Hot dog, anyone? Cartoons by Sarah Kempa, Charles Barsotti, and P. C. Vey. See more dog toons: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wjy9f5
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Teresa Burns Parkhurst. Sign up for our humor newsletter to get cartoons and other funny stuff directly in your inbox: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7vmzGf
“There is no more explicit example of the vulnerability of American democracy, and of the magnitude of the task of repairing it once it is breached” than the terror of 1898, Lauren Collins writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/WsZ9W2
Frozen yogurt is indisputably back. Read about its latest iteration. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wB8aDF