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THE REAL STORY OF KAMALA HARRIS’S RECORD ON IMMIGRATION

Republicans have attacked the Vice-President as the Biden Administration’s
“border czar,” claiming that she was responsible for an unprecedented number of
illegal crossings. But, Jonathan Blitzer writes, her remit was always to address
the root causes farther south.

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ABOVE THE FOLD

Essential reading for today.


KAMALA HARRIS ISN’T GOING BACK



Fifty years after Shirley Chisholm ran for the Presidency, we find ourselves yet
again questioning the durability of outmoded presumptions about race and gender.

By Jelani Cobb


WHY DID PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS SUPPORT JOE BIDEN?



As Kamala Harris defines her candidacy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others will
have few options to change it.

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor


KAMALA HARRIS SHOULD TELL HER FAMILY’S STORY



The tale of two immigrants who found opportunity in America is an inspiring one.
On the rare occasions that Harris shares it, her sometimes blurry identity comes
into focus.

By Jay Caspian Kang


WHAT MAKES KATIE LEDECKY GREAT



The preëminent swimmer is unique not only for winning races by body lengths—her
emotional and psychological approach sets her apart.

By Louisa Thomas
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FICTION


“ATTILA”


By Nell Freudenberger
Photograph by Fee-Gloria Grönemeyer for The New Yorker
Martha got the knife away from her mother and shut her in the garage. The garage
was not for cars; it had been converted by the house’s previous owners into what
the broker called a “mother-in-law apartment.” Martha assumed it was called that
because mothers were more likely to move in with daughters, and men were more
likely to own houses. She wasn’t married, though.Continue reading »
This Week in Fiction

Nell Freudenberger on Reckoning with a Family Dynamic
The Writer’s Voice
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The Author Reads “Attila”

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The Weekend Essay


INSIDE OUT

The magical in-betweenness—and surprising epidemiological history—of the porch.

By David Owen
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THE POLITICAL SCENE


BIDEN’S EXIT, HARRIS’S MOMENT

ListenListen

The President’s painful Oval Office farewell address is a reminder of how
quickly the 2024 campaign has already moved on.

By Susan B. Glasser


WAS BIDEN’S DECISION TO WITHDRAW “HEROIC”?



Jon Meacham, the President’s friend and informal adviser, considers his legacy.

By Isaac Chotiner


WHO SHOULD KAMALA HARRIS PICK AS HER RUNNING MATE?



There are a number of potential candidates—Mark Kelly, Andy Beshear, Roy
Cooper—who could serve the Democratic ticket well.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin


J. D. VANCE’S RADICAL RELIGION



How might the Republican V.P. nominee’s conversion to conservative Catholicism
influence his political world view?

By Paul Elie
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WHAT WE’RE READING THIS WEEK

An impassioned reassessment of Sylvia Plath’s life that challenges various
narratives and criticisms about the poet; a memoir of restoring an overgrown
garden in search of a paradise; a page-turning novel about a handsome debt-laden
striver living among the privileged élite; and more.

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THE CRITICS

On Television


JAKE GYLLENHAAL, AND HIS EYEBROWS, ON TRIAL IN “PRESUMED INNOCENT”



Ruth Negga and Peter Sarsgaard also star in this adaptation of the 1987 Scott
Turow novel.

By Vinson Cunningham
The Current Cinema


“TWISTERS” TAKES THE FUN OUT OF HEAVY WEATHER

ListenListen

The original “Twister” had no compunction about making tornadoes look awesome.
Lee Isaac Chung’s sequel treats them as deadly serious.

By Richard Brody
Photo Booth


JAMES CASEBERE’S VISIONS FROM AFTER THE FLOOD



In Casebere’s pictures from the exhibition “Seeds of Time,” water has not just
inundated individual structures but seems to have drowned the whole world.

By Chris Wiley
Culture Desk


CÉLINE DION GOES ON



Viewers of the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion” know just how hard-won the
pop superstar’s rumored comeback at the Olympics would be.

By Lauren Collins
Cultural Comment


THE SUMMER OF GIRLY POP



This season’s hits have been exuberant and canny, treating femininity as a kind
of inside joke.

By Carrie Battan
The Theatre


POLITICS AND “THE REAL” AT THE FESTIVAL D’AVIGNON



A series of international productions held power to account at a fraught moment.

By Helen Shaw
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Profiles


AN ARTIST FLOWERING IN HER NINETIES

Isabella Ducrot, a painter in Rome, didn’t really pick up a brush until her
fifties. Four decades later, galleries and museums throughout Europe are
celebrating her work.

By Rebecca Mead
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DEPT. OF SUMMER GAMES


THE UNEXPECTEDLY HOPEFUL PARIS OLYMPICS



The Games have never lived up to all their ideals. And yet this year’s
iteration, for all its flaws, has already inspired some positive change.

By Louisa Thomas


GLORY DAYS



What we watch when we watch the Olympics, a competition where contestants pursue
not victory but glory.

By Louis Menand


THE OLYMPICS’ NEVER-ENDING STRUGGLE TO KEEP TRACK OF TIME



The history of timekeeping, a finicky science, at the Olympics, from stopwatches
to ultra-precise lasers.

By Alan Burdick


THE ORIGINS OF SEX TESTING AT THE OLYMPICS



In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after
undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.

By Michael Waters
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Our Far-Flung Correspondents


OLD MONEY

In 1746, a vessel called the Prince de Conty foundered off the coast of France.
How did its most valuable cargo end up in the hands of a semi-retired Florida
couple?

By Lauren Collins
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GOINGS ON

Recommendations from our writers on what to read, eat, watch, listen to, and
more.


A SORBET-COLORED REVIVAL OF “ONCE UPON A MATTRESS”



On Broadway, the oddball, quasi-medieval musical frolic. Plus: Missy Elliott’s
first solo headlining tour, a Claire Denis masterwork, and other recommendations
from our critics.


THE ACHING MELODRAMA OF “JULY RHAPSODY”



The Hong Kong drama, from 2002, about a high-school literature teacher
navigating a midlife crisis, was long overdue for a release, Justin Chang
writes. It’s newly restored and now playing at Film Forum.


“FANTASMAS” FINDS TRUTH IN FANTASY

ListenListen

Vinson Cunningham reviews Julio Torres’s new HBO show, in which guest stars and
surreal distractions provide witty symbolic keys to serious themes.


A BROOKLYN TASTING MENU WITH MANHATTAN AMBITION



Helen Rosner visits Clover Hill, a restaurant that offers the kind of
technique-oriented cooking that usually emerges from the city’s billionaire
canteens.

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Books


SHOULD WE ABOLISH PRISONS?

Our carceral system is characterized by frequent brutality and ingrained
indifference. Finding a better way requires that we freely imagine alternatives.

By Adam Gopnik
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AT THE BEACH

Some sandy Shouts & Murmurs.


BEACH RULES

By John Howell Harris


THE BEST BEACH READS FOR WHEN YOU LEFT YOUR BOOK AT HOME

By Alex Watt


PROTECTING YOUR SANDCASTLE

By John Bailey Owen


A DAY AT THE BEACH

By Al Franken


NEW YORK BEACHES TO VISIT BEFORE YOU DIE

By JiJi Lee and Patrick Clair


WHAT’S YOUR OCEAN STYLE?

By Teresa Burns Parkhurst
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The Political Scene


THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AND THE ICONOGRAPHY OF TRIUMPH

In Milwaukee, with a candidate who had just cheated death, the resentment
rhetoric of Trump’s 2016 campaign gave way to an atmosphere of festive
certainty.

By Anthony Lane
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THE NEW YORKER’S EMMY-NOMINATED DOCUMENTARIES

These three films earned a total of five nominations for this year’s awards.
Learn more about the making of the films, and watch, below.


REVISITING NEW YORK’S HISTORIC ABORTION LAW IN “DECIDING VOTE”



Jeremy Workman and Robert Lyons’s film reconstructs the passage of a 1970 law
that made the state a sanctuary for people seeking abortions, and cost a
lawmaker his career.


TWO PERSPECTIVES ON ONE TRAGIC RAID IN AFGHANISTAN



In “The Night Doctrine,” by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Almudena Toral, the
experiences of U.S.-backed Afghan Special Forces soldiers, and of the civilians
they targeted, come together in an intimate portrait of national trauma.


“SWIFT JUSTICE” LOOKS INSIDE A SHARIA COURTROOM



The documentary, by Victor Blue and Ross McDonnell, offers an unrivalled glimpse
into the heart of the Taliban’s Afghanistan, and into the truth that the West
has failed to grasp about America’s longest war.

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Dispatch


THE STRUGGLE TO IDENTIFY ALL THE DEAD BODIES IN MEXICO

By some estimates, it could take forensic scientists a hundred and twenty years
to identify remains of the disappeared.

By Amy Reed-Sandoval
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IDEAS


A SUMMER OF SCI-FI

ListenListen

A new book claims that a few big summer movies heralded an epochal shift in the
motion-picture industry, but is that really how cultural history works?

By Anthony Lane


WHEN YUPPIES RULED

ListenListen

Defining a social type is a way of defining an era. What can the time of the
young urban professional tell us about our own?

By Louis Menand


POWER OF THE PIRATES

ListenListen

We’ve long viewed them as liberty-loving rebels. But it’s time to take off the
eye patch. Were they foes of the modern order?

By Daniel Immerwahr


WOULD YOU CLONE YOUR DOG?

ListenListen

We love our pets for their individual characters—and yet cloning implies that we
also believe their unique selves can be reproduced.

By Alexandra Horowitz
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A Reporter at Large


WILL HEZBOLLAH AND ISRAEL GO TO WAR?

Months of fighting at the border threaten to ignite an all-out conflict that
could devastate the region.

By Dexter Filkins
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PERSONS OF INTEREST

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HOW LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN HEARS THE WORLD

By Doreen St. Félix


MDOU MOCTAR’S GUITAR-BENDING CRY FOR JUSTICE

By Hanif Abdurraqib


MAYA RUDOLPH IS READY TO SERVE

By Michael Schulman


UPWARD SPIRAL

By Justin Chang
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Letter from Las Vegas


RECKONING WITH THE DEAD AT THE SPHERE

A run of lost Las Vegas weekends for Deadheads prompts a longtime fan to wrestle
with what the band has left behind.

By Nick Paumgarten
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PUZZLES & GAMES

Take a break and play.


THE CROSSWORD

A puzzle that ranges in difficulty, with the occasional theme.


Solve the latest puzzle


THE MINI

A bite-size crossword, for a quick diversion.


Solve the latest puzzle


NAME DROP

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?


Play a quiz from the vault


CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

We provide a cartoon, you provide a caption.


Enter this week’s contest
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

The Weekend Essay

The Weaponization of Sexual Violence on October 7th
Rape is a shocking and sadly predictable feature of war. But the nature of the
crime makes it difficult to document and, consequently, to prosecute.
By Masha Gessen
Culture Desk

Stop Stuffing the Kids Silly
But our parents have made up their minds—the grandchildren must be fed.
By Angie Wang
Infinite Scroll

Making Memes for the Global “Oat Milk Élite”
A loose federation of hyperlocal Instagram accounts are both satirizing and
codifying the habits of a homogenous consumer class.
By Kyle Chayka
Cultural Comment

Are Hollywood’s Jewish Founders Worth Defending?
Jews in the industry called for the Academy Museum to highlight the men who
created the movie business. A voice in my head went, Uh-oh.
By Michael Schulman


IN THE DARK

Season 3 of the New Yorker investigative podcast examines the killings of
twenty-four civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and asks why no one was held accountable
for the crime. Subscribers can listen early to Episodes 1 and 2.

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THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Olympics Diary
ListenListen


MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, OLYMPIC GOLFER

By Michael J. Arlen
Dept. of Close Calls
ListenListen


EAR INJURIES THROUGH HISTORY

By Zach Helfand
Dept. of Polyphonics
ListenListen


TILTED AXES WANTS YOU FOR ITS GUITARMY

By Henry Alford
Ba-Dum-Bum Dept.
ListenListen


THE DOG-BITE LAWYER TURNED STAY-AT-HOME MOM TURNED STANDUP COMIC

By Sheila Yasmin Marikar
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DAILY CARTOON

“Wrong window. I’m a sea lion. You need an otter.”
Cartoon by Charlie Hankin


This week’s cartoons »


SHOUTS & MURMURS

Cartoons, comics, and other funny stuff. Sign up for the Humor newsletter.


HUMAN RECALL ANNOUNCEMENT

By Evan Waite and River Clegg


WORRIED ABOUT THE ELECTION? APPLY FOR CITIZENSHIP NOW!

By Wendi Aarons and Johanna Gohmann


WRITING PROMPTS FOR NEW PARENTS

By Cora Frazier


YOUR ICLOUD STORAGE IS FULL! HERE’S WHY

By Ginny Hogan and Julia Edelman


INFLUENCERS I’D ACTUALLY WANT INFLUENCING ME

By Irving Ruan and Ellis Rosen


ANSWERS TO “WHERE ARE YOU FROM?,” TRANSLATED

By Tom Ellison
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