The Transatlantic Rift: The Trump Administration''s Unilateralism Undermines a Coordinated China Strategy and Weakens America - Center for American Progress (news.google.com)
Quantifying the patterns and driving forces of sulfur dioxide emissions in China through MRIO model and network analysis Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (news.google.com)
Robert Redford dies: Meryl Streep leads tributes to giant of American cinema, saying ‘one of the lions has passed’ – latest updates (www.theguardian.com)
White House Job Openings - The President’s driver should be able to go vroom-vroom fast without getting scared, and must be at least sixteen years old with a valid driver’s license. (www.newyorker.com)
Your First Call After You Shoot Someone - In the era of Stand Your Ground, self-defense insurance is increasingly popular. Does it promote gun violence? (www.newyorker.com)
Can You Really Live One Day at a Time? - Productivity culture encourages us to live inside our tasks and projects. But nature offers its own organizational system. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Assault on Disability Rights - Federal offices and programs that insure equal treatment are being shuttered and scaled back. (www.newyorker.com)
How Far Could Donald Trump’s Assault on the Federal Reserve Go? - Some central-bank veterans are concerned about a scenario in which the President’s appointees gain effective control of the institution and end its independence. (www.newyorker.com)
New Yorker Covers, Brought to Life! - To celebrate the magazine’s hundredth anniversary, photographers collaborated with Spike Lee, Julia Garner, Sadie Sink, and other notable figures to update covers from the archive. (www.newyorker.com)
The U.S. Government’s Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García - The Trump Administration’s maneuvers are rising to a political prosecution. (www.newyorker.com)
Bouldering Beside the Harlem River Drive - After learning to climb by scaling his family’s Park Slope town house, a nineteen-year-old likes to tackle the ledges of upper Manhattan, unless the cops get in the way. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance - The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer? (www.newyorker.com)
How Other Things End - With apologies to T. S. Eliot, clocking the dénouement of your kid’s bedtime ritual, the energy-drink craze, and your career, to name a few. (www.newyorker.com)
Debbie Gibson’s Pavarotti Period - The eighties pop princess returns to the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang in the Children’s Chorus, and shows off her new memoir, “Eternally Electric.” (www.newyorker.com)
Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican Homecoming - The Latin-trap performer is probably the most important pop musician of our time. Key to his success is that the bigger he gets, the more local he seems. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to John Seabrook’s piece on floods, Eyal Press’s article on the National Restaurant Association, and Adam Gopnik’s essay on the history of gambling in New York. (www.newyorker.com)
Duck, Cover, and Pass: The Atomic Bowl - A former Crawdaddy editor produced a documentary on a peculiar postwar military football game in Nagasaki. (www.newyorker.com)
In Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, a Dynasty Comes Home - A new sanctuary on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway assembles a deliberately whimsical variety of materials, where sculpture moves and is moved in turn. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Sagrada Família a Masterpiece or Kitsch? - In the century since Antoni Gaudí died, his wild design has been obsessively realized, creating the world’s tallest church—and an endlessly debated icon. (www.newyorker.com)