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Newsletter Search Search Open NavigationStory Saved Find anything you save across the site in your account Close Alert The Latest News Books & Culture Fiction & Poetry Humor & Cartoons Magazine Puzzles & Games Video Podcasts Goings On Shop Conviction Lucy Letby was found guilty of killing seven babies. Colleagues reportedly called the British nurse an angel of death,” and the Prime Minister, echoing a nation, condemned her. But, in the rush to judgment, serious questions about the evidence were ignored. Did Letby do it? Rachel Aviv investigates. Listen Dots Above the Fold Essential reading for today. The Historic Trump Court Cases That We Cannot See The former President is on trial in a courtroom that has banned cameras. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is deciding whether his other trials should even happen. By Neal Katyal An Israeli Newspaper Presents Truths Readers May Prefer to Avoid Haaretz consistently attempts to wrestle with the realities of what is going on in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. By David Remnick Stormy Daniels’s American Dream Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to portray the adult-film actress as a lying profiteer. Instead, she emerged as a credible witness who is also very good at making money. By Naomi Fry The Joy of Defense The Minnesota Timberwolves make the least glamorous part of basketball seem fun . By Louisa Thomas Dots Letter from Jordan The Other Side of the River Millions of Palestinians live in Jordan, where rage about the suffering in Gaza has reached a boiling point. Can the country’s leaders, who have a long-standing peace agreement with Israel, keep things under control? By Rania Abouzeid Dots Interview Amy Herzog Wants You to Enter Into the Strangeness of Caregiving The playwright on the new production of her play Mary Jane,” which stars Rachel McAdams as the mother of a two-year-old born with serious medical conditions. By Parul Sehgal Dots Comment Listen Listen By Susan B. Glasser Biden’s Public Ultimatum to Bibi By Amy Davidson Sorkin What’s Holding Up Trump’s Florida Case? By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The Kids Are Not All Right. They Want to Be Heard By Jay Caspian Kang The Radical Case for Free Speech Dots Weekend Essay Swimming with My Daughters It was so reasonable—why couldn’t we want different things? Two could go into the water and one could stay on the shore. But I didn’t want to leave her there. By Mary Grimm Dots Find new offerings in Store, including limited-edition totes. Browse and buy » The Critics Under Review Nellie Bowles’s Failed Provocations In Morning After the Revolution,” the former Times reporter sets out to uncover a not-so-forbidden truth—that the left can be somewhat goofy. By Molly Fischer On Television Baby Reindeer” and Under the Bridge” Are Stranger Than Fiction The two streaming series grapple with horrific real-life crimes—and with the complexity of the relationship between perpetrators and victims. By Inkoo Kang Postscript The Beautiful Rawness of Steve Albini The producer was uncompromising in his opposition to the commercialization of music. That might seem today like a Gen X relic—or it might seem kind of awesome. By Amanda Petrusich Personal History Looking at Art with Peter Schjeldahl Recalling a friendship with ’s late art critic. By Steve Martin The Front Row How Hindsight Distorts Our View of the Beatles in Let It Be” Usually seen as a document of the band’s breakup, the documentary, newly restored by Peter Jackson, is just as much a record of freewheeling inspiration. By Richard Brody Cultural Comment Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Our Moment of Bad Reading The once-upon-a-time defense of the poetics of rap has been ceded to the millennial mind of genius.com, taking every syllable as ripe for mundane exegesis. By Lauren Michele Jackson Dots What We’re Reading This Week A detailed history of humanity’s prehistoric roots; a thoughtful study of four of Shakespeare’s female contemporaries; a novel that follows a family of globe-trotters and interlopers searching for perfect love; and more. Dots Peruse a gallery of cartoons from the issue » Ideas Blurring the Line Between Money and Media Hunterbrook, a hybrid media-finance company, wants to monetize investigative journalism in the public interest. Is it a visionary game changer or a cynical ploy? By Clare Malone The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment An attempt to hide personal news from online ad trackers makes clear how much surveillance we are engaged in, as both subjects and objects, and how insidious the problem is becoming. By Jia Tolentino Can Suing People for Lying Save Democracy? The lawyers at Protect Democracy have brought defamation suits against Rudy Giuliani, Kari Lake, and Project Veritas, hoping to limit the spread of disinformation. Others worry that their efforts could impinge on freedom of speech. By Charles Bethea A TikTok Ban Won’t Fix Social Media You can take the platform away from American users, but it is far too late to contain the habits that it has unleashed. By Kyle Chayka Dots The Political Scene The Workingman and the Company Store Can a progressive campaign break the coal industry’s hold on West Virginia politics? By Dan Kaufman Dots Persons of Interest Miranda July Turns the Lights On By Alexandra Schwartz Listen Listen Bill Berloni, Animal Trainer to the Stars By Nick Paumgarten Jerry Seinfeld’s Theory of Comedy By David Remnick Listen Listen Deb Haaland Confronts the History of the Federal Agency She Leads By Casey Cep Dots Elements The Peculiar Delights of the Enormous Cicada Emergence As loud as leaf blowers, as miraculous as math, the insects are set to overtake the landscape. By Rivka Galchen Dots 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 Dots In Case You Missed It Essay The Role of Words in the Campus Protests In the campus protests over the war in Gaza, language and rhetoric are—as they have always been when it comes to Israel and Palestine—weapons of mass destruction. By Zadie Smith Our Local Correspondents Can Turning Office Towers Into Apartments Save Downtowns? Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles. By D. T. Max Letter from the U.K. Listen The British Museum’s Blockbuster Scandals While facing renewed accusations of cultural theft, the institution announced that it had been the victim of actual theft—from someone on the inside. By Rebecca Mead Comment Should We Be Worried About Bird Flu? According to the C.D.C., the risk to public health remains low. But the country’s initial approach has had an unsettling resonance with the first months of COVID . By Dhruv Khullar Fiction Consolation” Listen By André Alexis Illustration by André Derainne Five years before my mother died, we had a violent argument—a thing that had never happened before. She was in her early eighties and still driving, and, because I am an inveterate back-seat driver, on one of our outings I suggested that she take a road she did not want to take. She resented it, and I could feel her anger growing. When we got to her house, she came at me. Continue reading » This Week in Fiction André Alexis on Reality and Transformation The Writer’s Voice Listen The Author Reads Consolation” All fiction » The Talk of the Town At the Museum Dept. Slick Rick, Museum Consultant By Sarah Larson The Pictures Zendaya’s Challengers” Tennis Whisperer By Zach Helfand Fomo Dept. The World’s Greatest Party Crasher Strikes Again! By Bob Morris Fame Game A (Semi-Famous) Fame Scholar Takes In the Knicks’ Courtside Celebs By H. C. Wilentz Dots Daily Cartoon Cartoon...