Voters fed up with high prices gave Democrats a landslide election victory. The big question for party winners: Can Democrats alone fix what’s broken? (on.wsj.com)
Two former senior Trump advisers have been sending threatening text exchanges and trading barbs online, laying bare the rocky road ahead for the GOP after the midterms (on.wsj.com)
President Trump said Sunday that he was joking about Ultimate Fighting Championship Chief Executive Dana White becoming his next White House press secretary (on.wsj.com)
What’s on tap as Congress returns to Washington? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s fate, judicial confirmations, military spending and leadership elections. (on.wsj.com)
Nvidia’s board said it is launching an investigation into reports that CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort (on.wsj.com)
Justice Department lawyer Stanley Woodward, a former Democrat, is often in the middle of controversies—including battles over the Alaska election and President Trump’s golf-course makeover (on.wsj.com)
Inside Nvidia's org chart: See the 36 leaders who reported to CEO Jensen Huang as of 2025 at the world's most valuable company (www.businessinsider.com)
Claude Code was mailing your email address to every website it visited: the User-Agent leak, the 5-month system-prompt issue, and the 5-point check (dev.to)
Why Russia and Ukraine Keep Resisting Trump’s Art of the Deal - The White House is leading a new round of negotiations this week to end the war, but all sides remain deeply at odds. (www.newyorker.com)
Hilary Knight Is Rawther Beloved - At the hundredth-birthday party of the illustrator of the “Eloise” books, testimonials poured in from such pals as Bernadette Peters, Anderson Cooper, and the reputed inspiration for Eloise herself, Liza Minnelli. (www.newyorker.com)
John Cusack Goes Graphic - At the comic-book store Forbidden Planet, the “Say Anything” actor talks about his new graphic novel, in which the philosopher-artist Antonin Artaud is freed from an asylum by Jackie Gleason. (www.newyorker.com)
What It Takes to Save a Town from Wildfire - Catastrophic blazes are exposing the limits of individual precautions. Can communities build a system of collective defense? (www.newyorker.com)
The Lasting Influence of John Berger - His TV series “Ways of Seeing” popularized a Marxist view of art and made him a star. In his centennial year, his wide-ranging output continues to inspire and infuriate. (www.newyorker.com)
After the War, They Turned the Cameras on Themselves, in “Allies in Exile” - Displaced by war, two Syrian filmmakers, Hasan Kattan and Fadi al-Halabi, document their wait for asylum in the U.K., forging a friendship through storytelling amid rising anti-immigrant protests. (www.newyorker.com)
The Ubiquitous Melancholy of Max Richter - The composer’s song “On the Nature of Daylight” has popped up in countless sob fests including “Arrival” and “Hamnet.” With billions of streams, he’s become one of the most popular and successful composers of our time. (www.newyorker.com)
The Death Knell of Digital Search - Companies such as Google used to be our portals to the rest of the web. Can the internet as we know it can survive when A.I. answers all of our questions? (www.newyorker.com)
Josh Homme Likes to Satan - On the heels of a new album from the rock band Queens of the Stone Age, the group’s front man spends some quality time with Linda Blair’s “Exorcist” character. (www.newyorker.com)
The Unfinished Business of American Socialism - The movement has often seen its ideas flourish as its organizations withered. Will today’s resurgence follow the same course? (www.newyorker.com)
The Long-Awaited Rise of Tinashe - After more than a decade of niche popularity, the singer released “Popstar”—an album whose title was a self-fulfilling prophecy. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Death of a Certain Woman,” by Yasushi Inoue - Every child in the village knew about Omitsu and had learned the unfamiliar word “mistress.” (www.newyorker.com)
An N.B.A. Player Got Hooked on Sports Betting. Soon, He Became the Bet - Jontay Porter got deep into FanDuel, and in debt to the wrong people. The only way out, it seemed, was to gamble on himself. (www.newyorker.com)
How Takashi Yamazaki Brought Godzilla Back to Life - In 2024, the Japanese director’s revival of the famed saga won a surprise Oscar. He describes how he tried to make the latest installment, “Godzilla Minus Zero,” live up to its predecessor. (www.newyorker.com)
J. Martin Holman on Childhood in Translation - The translator discusses his work on “The Death of a Certain Woman,” by the late Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue. (www.newyorker.com)
“After Rothko,” by David Biespiel - “Always there are afternoons, / The empty days, and scaly / Layers of intimate / Footprints, deep / Enough to step into.” (www.newyorker.com)
I’ll Take Blue Florida for Five Hundred - Not all bets are made with big money. On the night of the midterms, one small Kalshi wagerer puts his chump change—and his sanity—on the line. (www.newyorker.com)
Breaking the Decade-Long Trump Fever - The President’s unique brand of lurid authoritarianism has finally lost appeal, and he has lost the plot. (www.newyorker.com)
How France Took Over Basketball - The country spent decades building a development system to cultivate the tallest and most talented kids. Now the best player in the world is French, and its national team poses a serious threat to U.S. Olympic dominance. (www.newyorker.com)