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I’ll start this new project just as soon as all conditions in my life are perfect.
More precise names for the “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia.
Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask.
It’s becoming pretty clear that something is going on with the crossword constructor.
I’m a teacher and I do, in fact, live at school.
Hinder: a dating app for emotionally unavailable men.
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Ali Fitzgerald, an artist and a writer, first contributed to The New Yorker in 2016. She is the author of “Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe.”
Shouts & Murmurs
Updated Kennedy Center 2025 Schedule
Big Balls: The TED Talk; Gay-Conversion Band Camp; an all-Nordic version of “TheWiz”—and more!
By Bill Scheft
Humor
And Deliver Us from Elon
Just because you are no longer a practicing Catholic doesn’t mean you can’t go to church and get your throat blessed, right?
By Mary Norris
Poems
“Day One”
“Been a long while now coming up / Thought we were past it, thought we’d patched it up.”
By Flock of Dimes
Sketchpad
Democratic Resistance Strategies
Less polite language on protest paddles, sick burns in the private Slack, and other techniques for sticking it to the Republican party.
By Emily Flake
Poems
“Cirrus”
“ ‘I don’t have time,’ I told / myself, ‘To kill myself: I have / to write a paper on Rimbaud.’ ”
By Rosanna Warren
Fiction
“Marseille”
Alba stretched her arms dramatically. “I mean, I guess it would be fun to have an amoureux in Marseille. Handy for holidays.”
By Ayşegül Savaş
Humor
The Millennial Exit
We were raised on red-40 cereals and people-pleasing! Shouldn’t any of that count for something?!
By Laura Steinel
The Political Scene Podcast
Trump Finally Gets His Way on Tariffs
With a single act, the President has upended the entire global economic order.
The Political Scene Podcast
The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington
What do the believers in “tech supremacy” plan to do with the federal government?
Shouts & Murmurs
Raising Felix: Google Misunderstood
Hey Google! Where can I buy a brother?
By Julia Wertz
Sketchpad
Your Handy Road Map to Authoritarianism
Turn right at Toxic Masculinity and continue straight through Weakening Checks and Balances.
By Brendan Loper
Critics at Large
Joe Rogan, Hasan Piker, and the Art of the Hang
New forms of media that invite intense parasociality are capturing the attention of young men. What does it portend for our politics?