Her Mother’s Sterling Silver Sat in a Sideboard for 50 Years. She Sold It at a Record Price, and Medicare Could Double Her 2028 Premium. (finance.yahoo.com)
Dan Ives Says M&A Is the ‘Missing Piece’ for Apple in AI Arms Race — New CEO John Ternus Could Finally Shake Up Tim Cook’s Playbook (finance.yahoo.com)
Tim Cook Grew Apple From a 350 Billion Company Into a Multi-Trillion-Dollar Giant Over Nearly 15 Years as CEO. Can John Ternus'' Product-First Approach Extend That Compounding? (finance.yahoo.com)
The Supreme Court cleared the way for political parties to buy television ads at special reduced rates in the lead-up to the midterm elections (on.wsj.com)
Why the Lindsay Clancy Trial Ended in a Deadlock - Both the prosecution and the defense tried to tell tidy stories. But, in the end, five weeks of testimony from more than eighty witnesses couldn’t resolve the central mystery of Clancy’s state of mind. (www.newyorker.com)
Sarah Longwell, a Former Republican, on “How to Eat an Elephant” - Working with focus groups, Longwell keeps a bead on what voters are really thinking, and how to combat Trumpism. She presents the playbook to the New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos. (www.newyorker.com)
Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Americans in a Time of Peril - The writer, who recently released a new novel, speaks with The New Yorker’s Doreen St. Félix about the meaning of home in an era when Haitian Americans are targeted for mass deportation. (www.newyorker.com)
East Hampton’s Secret Garden of Unusual Trees - During a residency at the Folly Tree Arboretum, I encountered significant specimens including a clone of a “tree” that went to the moon on Apollo 14. (www.newyorker.com)
Jocelyn Bioh’s “Mean Girls” at a Ghana Beauty Pageant - Also: Harry Styles takes up residence at M.S.G., “Paranormal Activity” terrifies Broadway, Dakota Fanning and Jake Johnson star in a new movie, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Capital Makeover - A coterie of advisers, planners, and architects is enabling the President’s passion project—renovating D.C. in his own image. (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump Outmaneuvers the Supreme Court - In both the ballroom and the mail-in-ballot cases, the President has tested the Justices’ willingness to stop him in his tracks. (www.newyorker.com)
The Principled Cynicism of “By Any Means” - Elegance Bratton’s second feature, starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, brings a gangland perspective to the legal battle for civil rights in the nineteen-sixties. (www.newyorker.com)
The Blockbuster Audacity of “Hope” - In Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, violent small-town comedy and big-budget Hollywood imperialism collide. (www.newyorker.com)
Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay - When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have, your role is to remind us how far we have come. (www.newyorker.com)
“Motherji,” by Akhil Sharma - Radha had always believed that the world was evil and people malicious. But her sense of evil had been that of an ordinary person. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Neocolonialism Will Backfire - The President is touting his big Venezuelan oil deal, but his interventions abroad are stirring anger and having unintended consequences. (www.newyorker.com)
Welcome to Career Day - I spend two-ish hours messing around with an A.I. chatbot, as per the company’s new mandate, teaching it how to do my job so that it can replace me. Any questions? (www.newyorker.com)
Reporting the Big World - Neal Ascherson found himself at the center of the great crises of Cold War Europe. Do careers like his exist anymore? (www.newyorker.com)
Taking In the Scene at Daisy Chain Fields, the Zoomer Lilith Fair - Olivia Rodrigo’s daylong, woman-led event felt at times like any other corporate music festival. But, if music is the measure, it was up to something stunning. (www.newyorker.com)
Five Great Campus Novels - Our critic’s picks for going back to school. Plus: an Edith Wharton novella for a last gasp of the season. (www.newyorker.com)