Stock Market Today: Dow rises 150 points, S&P 500 and Nasdaq fall as U.S. oil prices drop below 74 a barrel after Treasury allows Iran oil sales for 60 days (news.google.com)
The Stock Market Is Bordering on a Dubious Record Dating Back to the Early 1870s -- and It Holds Terrifying Implications for Wall Street (finance.yahoo.com)
I turned my obsession with British cars into a luxury business. My designs start at 339,000 and can take up to 3 years to finish. (www.businessinsider.com)
Do Netanyahu’s Domestic Opponents Offer a Real Alternative? - Moshe Tur-Paz is one of many centrist Israeli politicians criticizing Donald Trump’s deal to temporarily stop the war with Iran. (www.newyorker.com)
The Torture Chamber of British Politics Crushes Its Latest Prime Minister - Keir Starmer becomes the sixth Prime Minister over the past decade to resign, surrendering to the U.K.’s manifold problems. (www.newyorker.com)
The NY-12 Primary Is Awash with Money but Short on Belief - The race—whose candidates include Micah Lasher, Alex Bores, George Conway, and Jack Schlossberg—is at once glitzy, confusing, and uninspiring. (www.newyorker.com)
Alexandra Grant Brings Spirit Back - Walking through her new exhibition, “Antigone 3000,” the artist known to online hordes as Keanu Reeves’s mysterious silver-haired girlfriend reflects on Sophocles and the color pink. (www.newyorker.com)
The Repo Man Coming for Your Ride - As America’s auto debt nears 1.7 trillion, repossessions are reaching levels not seen since the Great Recession. Inside an industry at the front line of the country’s affordability crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s the Point of Sex, Anyway? - The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they bother. (www.newyorker.com)
The Curious Career of “the American Dream” - How a phrase coined during the Depression became a national creed, a global brand, and a vessel for disillusionment. (www.newyorker.com)
Dan Mintz, Reanimated - The comedian and voice artist puts his “Bob’s Burgers” expertise to the test with a cartoon standup special—produced by the man who officiated his wedding, John Mulaney. (www.newyorker.com)
Isabel J. Kim Makes Her Own World - At a board-game café on the Upper West Side, the lawyer and author discusses her new book, “Sublimation,” about borders, parallel selves, and an eerily Trump-like government. (www.newyorker.com)
Colson Whitehead’s Big Score - As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions. (www.newyorker.com)
What Science Knows About Grief - After my husband’s death, I had never been more pliable, tender, open, or raw. It was then that I tried E.M.D.R. therapy. (www.newyorker.com)
The Pied Piper - The man with the fife was good at getting rid of Hamelin’s rats. What, the townspeople wondered, could he do with the children? (www.newyorker.com)
Why the Odyssey Keeps Defeating Filmmakers - Full of violence, desire, monsters, and magic, Homer’s epic has tempted directors for decades. Can Christopher Nolan’s new adaptation survive the voyage? (www.newyorker.com)
How Matthew Rhys Stays Hungry - The star of “Widow’s Bay” on the series’ emotional season finale, his formative love for Richard Burton, and the subtle power of scarfing a whole chicken onscreen. (www.newyorker.com)
The Difference Between the Knicks and the White House Cage Fight - Sports, spectacle, and what Juvenal would have made of this moment. (www.newyorker.com)
A Lonely Adolescent Summer, Set to “Bad Moon Rising” - To an eleven-year-old in a Long Island suburb, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 hit sounded like it came from somewhere distant, deep, and haunted. (www.newyorker.com)