The Atlantic Announces Roles for Zachary Fryer-Biggs, Sophie Haigney, Jebediah Reed, Kevin Roose, Lindsey Sitz, Alex Stockton, and Robert F. Worth (www.theatlantic.com)
Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P 500 end lower, Nasdaq gains as tech stocks jump in September, yields surge and fresh PCE inflation data comes in cooler than expected (news.google.com)
President Trump began sending 500 checks to nearly one million people and enclosed a letter touting his record on cutting healthcare costs (on.wsj.com)
Senate Republicans made a late push to show voters they were trying to rein in the high costs of living but the legislation failed to advance (on.wsj.com)
A Democratic lawmaker wants more information on the secret agreements between tech companies building data centers and local officials approving them (on.wsj.com)
Americans in both parties back government-imposed price caps and other market interventions to make life more affordable, suggesting new support for populist ideas, according to a WSJ survey (on.wsj.com)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce 20% cut to top brass, the Trump administration used Homeland Security funds for pro-Trump television ads and billionaire Peter Thiel is behind the 130 million purchase of Casa Encantada. Read more in today’s What’s News newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
“Verity” Is a Criminal Waste of Talent - The melodramatic power of Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway is squandered in a romantic tale that’s ludicrously muddled by suspicions of monstrous misdeeds. (www.newyorker.com)
Carolyn Forché Reads Mahmoud Darwish - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Owl''s Night,” by Mahmoud Darwish, and her own poem “The Museum of Stones.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement - At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life. (www.newyorker.com)
Tom Cruise Is a Scream—and a Gas—in “Digger” - In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s conceptually elaborate apocalyptic farce, hectoring satire and visual sublimity fight to a draw. (www.newyorker.com)
Mayors vs. Nationalists - Leaders of cities around the world are standing up for democracy, even if the leaders of their countries are not. (www.newyorker.com)
When “Gender Deception” Is a Crime - A new book revisits a notorious British sexual-assault trial in which a woman was convicted of posing as a man in bed. (www.newyorker.com)
Individual Choices Won’t Fix America’s Public Schools - Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a struggling local school and has come to regret it. But personalizing the problem is the wrong approach. (www.newyorker.com)
New Kinds of Trad Wife I Could Be - Outfit Only: I totally look like I’m in a sexy version of “Little House on the Prairie,” but I refuse to do a single chore. (www.newyorker.com)
Cartoon Recession Indicators - Is your life savings a single moth? Are you afflicted with moola eyes? It might be a sign we’re in a downturn. (www.newyorker.com)
Why America Looks the Way It Does - From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Guide to Navigating the Parent Group Chat - From the kind and competent to the scheming and lost, meet all the characters blowing up your phone. (www.newyorker.com)
Caleb Hammer’s Humiliation Economy - The host of “Financial Audit,” a popular YouTube series, claims that his goal is to make his viewers more financially literate, with his down-and-out interviewees serving as extreme test cases for what not to do. (www.newyorker.com)
The Cellmate Who Taught Me the Codes of Russian Prison - On the outside, we would have never been friends. But in our small shared space we established a delicate rapport. (www.newyorker.com)
More Sunshine with Joey Arias and Basil Twist - The performance artist and the puppeteer are reviving their avant-garde cabaret show, a leggy fantasia beloved by Cyndi Lauper and the late Paul Reubens. (www.newyorker.com)
At the Department of Justice, Many Lawyers Are Wondering If It’s Time to Quit - The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads? - The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues. (www.newyorker.com)
How Paweł Pawlikowski Learned to Film Europe’s Fractures - The Polish director has made a career out of examining the mysteries of borders, both spiritual and political. (www.newyorker.com)