Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday urged Nvidia’s board to hire an outsider as its next chief executive to replace Jensen Huang, who resigned last week (on.wsj.com)
Travel disruption stretched into a third day Sunday as the effects of a more than four-hour groundstop continued to reverberate through airline operations (on.wsj.com)
As air traffic across the country came to an abrupt halt Friday, radio broadcasts and messages between airline control rooms and pilots indicated how the industry navigated the crisis (on.wsj.com)
A federal judge temporarily barred the Trump administration from closing a Washington, D.C. public golf course to begin work on an extensive overhaul that the president has touted (on.wsj.com)
The system that brought air travel to a standstill on Friday is an outdated network of wires, cables and network gear which carry the radio transmissions, radar data and text messages (on.wsj.com)
A coalition is pushing back against proposed Trump administration rules that would let the government revoke the tax-exempt status of schools engaging in racial preferences (on.wsj.com)
Are floating data centers the future? Some startups have proposed putting data centers on or under seawater, betting they will face less opposition from the public than land-based facilities. (on.wsj.com)
Nearly 3,900 flights were canceled and more than 2,300 were delayed on Saturday, a day after the FAA grounded flights nationwide for four hours because of technical issues (on.wsj.com)
The Pentagon is testing war robots that can hunt in packs without GPS and find battlefield targets on their own. Humans still call the shots. (www.businessinsider.com)
The Flatbush Tragedy Tells the Story of New York - The building was owned by a notorious slumlord, the developer next door was known for cutting corners, and the people killed were immigrants living—as newcomers to the city always have—in cramped and dilapidated conditions. (www.newyorker.com)
LeVar Burton Gets the Last Word - The actor opens up about his struggles with mental health, his passion for literature, and why he believes the Trump Administration is “killing the imaginations of America’s kids.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Trude,” by Joshua Cohen - She was the modest sister, she was the behaved sister, she was the responsible sister, she was the living sister and last survivor of the Herzl siblings. (www.newyorker.com)
Jensen Huang and the Storied Lineage of the Honey Trap - Novelists have long grasped the possibilities. Ian Fleming served up such enticements in his James Bond novels nearly as often as Bond was served a Martini. (www.newyorker.com)
“Avedon” Shows the Scars, Just Not the Photographer’s Own - Ron Howard’s new Netflix documentary is cagy about the dark underside of the legendary photographer’s life, which is perhaps fitting for an artist whose pictures were studies in utter control. (www.newyorker.com)
Living in Normaltown and Feeling Anything But - Tim Davis revisits a period of childhood upheaval in a place he remembers for its “cartilage of politeness.” (www.newyorker.com)
President Trump’s Nightmare Oval Office - At a Chelsea gallery, the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset walked through their latest installation—a barren, rusty Corten-steel replica of the West Wing room, with not a gold touch in sight. (www.newyorker.com)
With Stephen Miller and Jim Jordan, the G.O.P. Doubles Down on Ideology - In the aftermath of the Republicans’ defeat in the midterms, right-wing hard-liners have been elevated to the apex of Washington politics. What does their rise spell for the future of the G.O.P.? (www.newyorker.com)
Joe Biden’s Memoir “Promise Me, America” Shows a Man in Denial - The former President had it in him to write a great book about the loss of his powers as he aged. “Promise Me, America” is not that book. (www.newyorker.com)
The Historian Timothy Garton Ash on the World After Trump - The Oxford professor talks with David Remnick about threats to Europe from American skepticism, Russian aggression, and ascendant far-right parties. (www.newyorker.com)
In His War of Choice with Iran, Trump Has No Good Options - The staff writer Ishaan Tharoor on the political backlash to the war, and why the President cannot easily extricate the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)
A Whistle-Blower Speaks Out About Trump’s Crackdown on Campus Antisemitism - A Justice Department lawyer assigned to work on an Administration task force began to suspect that the investigations were “outcome-driven.” (www.newyorker.com)
I Am a 2026 National Book Award Finalist. The U.S. Denied My Visa - After my memoir, “Huna,” was nominated, I made plans to attend the ceremony in New York—only to be found ineligible for a visitor visa. (www.newyorker.com)
My Coffee with Billy Evans - I can’t beat eggs anymore without trying to impress Billy Evans. I sometimes wish he were there beside me in the kitchen to say, “And that’s how you scramble eggs!” (www.newyorker.com)
How Sombr Went from TikTok to Madison Square Garden - Also: the legacy of Merce Cunningham, Lauren Ambrose in a new play by Nick Payne, early Vincent Price, and more. (www.newyorker.com)