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### Hatchet Man

As director of the F.B.I., Kash Patel has fired leadership, lowered hiring standards, and reassigned agents to support deportation efforts. **Marc Fisher** reports on Patel’s transformation of the agency on behalf of Donald Trump.

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## Today’s Mix

### The Darkest Thread in the Epstein E-mails

Donald Trump occupies a kind of negative space in the available files, which run an enervating gamut from the inane to the depraved.

By Jessica Winter

### Trump Can’t Dodge the Costly K-Shaped Economy

After insisting for months that his tariffs weren’t raising prices, the President has virtually admitted the opposite by moving to scrap the duties on beef, coffee, and other foodstuffs.

By John Cassidy

### The New New England Patriots

The team lately seems to have found that elusive balance of confidence and calm, accountability and community. Where did it come from?

By Louisa Thomas

### The Meaning of Donald Trump’s Presidential Pardons

The President granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year into his second, he has issued nearly two thousand.

By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

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Onward and Upward with the Arts

### The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star

As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.

By Alice Gregory

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## The Lede

A daily column on what you need to know.

### Time Runs Out on Nico Harrison and the Dallas Mavericks

The infamous N.B.A. executive once said that “time will tell” on the trade that sent the superstar Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers. Not even a year later, he’s out of a job.

By Brady Brickner-Wood

### The Liberal Scholars Who Influenced Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship

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The President’s executive order took inspiration from a legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets.

By Rachel Morris

### The Hidden Devastation of Hurricanes

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Their health effects extend far beyond official death tolls.

By Clayton Dalton

### Did Democrats Win the Shutdown After All?

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What the Party got out of the longest government closure in American history.

By Jon Allsop

### Governments and Billionaires Retreat Ahead of *COP*30 Climate Talks

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Worldwide, every other week seems to bring a new climate-related crisis. Increasingly, the response has seemed to be a dulled acceptance.

By Elizabeth Kolbert

### The Human Toll of the Suspension of *SNAP*

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The food-assistance program serves around forty-two million Americans. In Texas, even people with decent jobs are feeling the pain.

By Rachel Monroe

### Rebels Post Videos of Mass Killings in Darfur as the World Watches

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After the fall of El Fasher to the R.S.F., observers fear for the next target in the war.

By Nicolas Niarchos

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On and Off the Avenue

### Tools, Treats, and Trifles for Food Lovers

Our food critic’s annual roundup of gastronomic ideas for giving.

By Helen Rosner

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## The Critics

The Current Cinema

### “Sirāt” Is a Harrowing, Exhilarating Dance of Death

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In Oliver Laxe’s desert thriller, an intensely agonizing journey reveals both the pitiless nature of fate and the stubborn persistence of compassion.

By Justin Chang

The Theatre

### Kristin Chenoweth’s Uneven Gilt Trip in “The Queen of Versailles”

The Broadway veteran stars as a Marie Antoinette wannabe in a musical about excess, and Anne Washburn goes post-apocalyptic with “The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire.”

By Helen Shaw

On and Off the Avenue

### A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents for Kids

Toys, crafts, lab kits, and more for the young loved ones in your life.

By Jessica Winter

The Art World

### Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality

A retrospective at *MOMA* puts forth a persuasive case for an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined.

By Julian Lucas

On Television

### “Death by Lightning” Dramatizes the Assassination America Forgot

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The new Netflix miniseries makes the 1881 killing of President James Garfield feel thrillingly current.

By Inkoo Kang

The Front Row

### The Joyful Mythology of “Nouvelle Vague”

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Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless” embraces the legend of the French New Wave and its enduring influence.

By Richard Brody

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### What We’re Reading

A treatise revealing the myriad ways in which trees bend the natural world to their own ends; an understated yet potent novel that examines the varying experiences of displacement; a lively history tracing the dawn of early photography; and more.

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## Our Columnists

Letter from Trump’s Washington

### The Trump Presidency Can’t Escape the Epstein Scandal

Read the e-mails—this isn’t going away anytime soon.

By Susan B. Glasser

Critic’s Notebook

### Life at the Edge of a Famous Family

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Eleanor Coppola’s new memoir, “Two of Me: Notes on Living and Leaving,” explores the difficulties of having a celebrated director for a husband, and a celebrated director for a daughter.

By Naomi Fry

Open Questions

### Is “Six Seven” Really Brain Rot?

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The viral phrase is easy to dismiss, but its ubiquity suggests something crucial about human nature.

By Joshua Rothman

Infinite Scroll

### That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.

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Aspiring musicians are churning out tracks using generative artificial intelligence. Some are topping the charts.

By Kyle Chayka

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Onward and Upward with the Arts

### Rian Johnson Is an Agatha Christie for the Netflix Age

The director revived the cozy mystery with “Knives Out.” In a new sequel, can he find his way to the end of the maze?

By Anna Russell

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## Ideas

### What Was the American Revolution For?

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Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.

By Jill Lepore

### The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

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ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.

By James Somers

### What Did Men Do to Deserve This?

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Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”

By Jessica Winter

### How the Supreme Court Defines Liberty

Recent memoirs by the Justices reveal how a new vision of restraint has led to radical outcomes.

By Ruth Marcus

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The Weekend Essay

### The Mystery of the Political Assassin

Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them.

By Margaret Talbot

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## Takes

Revisiting notable works from the archive.

### Ellen Willis’s Review of Elvis in Las Vegas

The magazine’s first pop-music critic was never afraid to be overtaken by unexpected delight, even if it came at the expense of some preëxisting skepticism.

By Hanif Abdurraqib

### Anthony Bourdain’s “Don’t Eat Before Reading This”

Bourdain was much more than a whistle-blower, even at the very beginning of what would become his second, incredibly significant career.

By Hannah Goldfield

### Rebecca West’s “The Crown Versus William Joyce”

The writer took on the trial of Lord Haw-Haw, a British Fascist who became a mouthpiece for the Nazis, and who prefigured the reactionary toadyism of our own era.

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus

### St. Clair McKelway’s “Old Eight Eighty”

The three-part series, about an elderly counterfeiter, established a template for narratives about small-time grifters.

By David Grann

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Letter from the Southwest

### Texas’s Water Wars

As industrial operations move to the state, residents find that their drinking water has been promised to companies.

By Rachel Monroe

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## Persons of Interest

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### David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation

By Amanda Petrusich

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### Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback

By Antonia Hitchens

### J. B. Pritzker Sounds the Alarm

By Peter Slevin

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### Tehching Hsieh Turned Every Second Into Art

By Zachary Fine

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As Told To

### In Gaza, Home Is Just a Memory

After the ceasefire, many Palestinians who were displaced during the war are still grieving the homes they can’t return to—and which they often had to evacuate in minutes.

By Mohammed R. MhawishIllustration by Rama Duwaji

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## Puzzles & Games

Take a break and play.

### The Crossword

A puzzle that ranges in difficulty, with the occasional theme.

Solve the latest puzzle

### The Mini

A bite-size crossword, for a quick diversion.

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### Shuffalo

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

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### Laugh Lines

Can you place the cartoons in chronological order?

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### Cartoon Caption Contest

We provide a cartoon, you provide a caption.

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### Name Drop

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?

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## In Case You Missed It

Profiles

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Joachim Trier Has Put Oslo on the Cinematic Map

His new film, “Sentimental Value,” is another intimate character study set in the Norwegian capital. His approach to directing is as empathic as his films.

The Weekend Essay

Art Rats in New York City

Finding my own words.

The New Yorker Interview

Laura Dern Has the Spirit of Seventies Cinema

The actor, who plays George Clooney’s publicist in “Jay Kelly” and Will Arnett’s estranged wife in “Is This Thing On?,” has spent her life surrounded by Hollywood luminaries.

A Reporter at Large

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The Runaway Monkeys Upending the Animal-Rights Movement

A troop of macaques escaped one of the largest primate-breeding facilities in America. Now a strange coalition of uncompromising activists and *MAGA* loyalists is demanding that all lab animals be set free.

## Fiction

## “Lara’s Theme”

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By Madhuri Vijay

Illustration by Anagh Banerjee

That year, my mother was taking French lessons at the Alliance Française in Bangalore, and she claimed that her teacher had been impressed with her from the start.

“Madame Aurelie says I have a natural ear,” she announced one evening.

“Wonderful,” my father, an architect, said, not looking up from the plans he had spread across the dining table.Continue reading »

This Week in Fiction

Madhuri Vijay on the Need to Feel Exceptional

The Writer’s Voice

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The Author Reads “Lara’s Theme”

## The Talk of the Town

The Boards

### Keeping Up with Andrea Martin

By Henry Alford

Pop-Up Dept.

### Annie Leibovitz Outside the Frame

By Jane Bua

The Pictures

### What’s the Best Movie About the Subway?

By Jackson Vail

Public Art Dept.

### The Harlem River Houses’ Newest Residents

By Taran Dugal

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## Daily Cartoon

“Let me show you where on my arm I got my flu shot, so you can accidentally bump into it all day.”

Cartoon by Ali Solomon

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## Shouts & Murmurs

Cartoons, comics, and other funny stuff. Sign up for the Humor newsletter.

### Effigies of Me

By Jack Handey

### I’m the Woman Who Ruined the Workplace

By Ariel Dumas

### Preliminary Sketches for the White House Renovation

By Enrico Pinto

### Just As You Feared—Life in Zohran Mamdani’s New York

By Charlie Dektar

### I Bite Back

By Ian Frazier

### Restoring America’s Strong American Future by Eradicating Its Un-American Past

By Jay Katsir

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