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With Matt Gaetz forced to pull his own nomination for attorney general, savvy Washington observers call it a win for norms. “I think it shows that Donald Trump cannot get anything he wants,” said a law professor in Politico the morning after. Yes, well, too bad that not getting what he wants has never taught Trump a lesson about anything. In fact, Trump’s typical response to being denied what he wants is even more outrageous demands. 

One lesson commentators and strategists are drawing from the 2024 election is that Democrats ignore the cost of living at their peril. That has huge implications for climate policy: Even with deadly drought, wildfires and flooding hammering the working class nationwide, policies that limit this damage from climate change are too often successfully framed by Republicans as a cost to “ordinary Americans.” The clean-energy focused Inflation Reduction Act, despite its name, didn’t do enough to derail that narrative... Читать дальше...

In the fall of 2015, some Oberlin College students complained in their campus newspaper that Campus Dining Services had been passing off a pulled pork sandwich as a Vietnamese banh mi. This was a reasonable criticism, expressed through established channels at a pitch far from hysterical. But if you’ve heard of this particular sandwich, this is almost certainly not what you heard about it, at least six weeks later, from The New York Times—or perhaps it was The Washington Post. Or Newsweek. Or Seventeen. Читать дальше...

This stunning blue mask may represent the Aztec cycle of death and renewal.

The company works with giants like OpenAI and Meta—and has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to freelance trainers in just the past year. 

AI’s on the rise, and so is its visual counterpoint.

While we don’t know what design trends will end up defining 2025, if Canva user data is any indicator, the year could see an increase in design that’s dynamic and fun, and that mixes high-tech capabilities with good old analog design treatments.

The design software company’s latest design trend report forecasts the visual elements and aesthetics it predicts will be big in 2025, based in part on some of the platform’s fastest-rising search terms. Читать дальше...

China is exporting its surplus steel at record levels, but importers are getting fed up.

1990 Whit Stillman film about New York City’s “urban haute bourgeoisie”: twelve letters.

Drawings from the December 2, 2024, magazine.

Putting on a friendly face.

On a visit to August Wilson’s childhood home, in Pittsburgh, the director of a new adaptation of the play discusses casting his brother (alongside Samuel L. Jackson) and working for his father.

Readers respond to Sam Knight’s article on shipwreck detectives and Jill Lepore’s and George Saunders’s election dispatches.

“At / first it / didn’t change // much.”

I vow to go without sex to prove that I am in support of what my wife is in support of, politically, and also in terms of not wanting to have sex with me that much.

Air Company, a startup that has used water and carbon dioxide to make vodka and to power automobiles, taste-tests its product and discusses getting Elon Musk’s business.

Jasper Dolphin joins two young fans for corn dogs and scary rides at Dodger Stadium.

“On the Calculation of Volume (Book I),” “The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan,” “Burdened,” and “Linguaphile.”

“I didn’t like or dislike baseball, I simply / Didn’t understand it.”

When a group of German Marxists arrived in Naples in the nineteen-twenties, they found a way of life that made them rethink modernity.

In the second MAGA Administration, the hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent will have the job of acting as a voice of reason.

“The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth twist the dial too far?

Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

The vacation hot spot has been overrun by people—whose habits are drawing fast-moving animals with sharp claws and insatiable appetites.

A future generation of robots will not be programmed to complete specific tasks. Instead, they will use A.I. to teach themselves.

While companies tend to amp up warnings to consumers about fraud and scams during the holidays, institutions may also need to bulk up their defenses.