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The Trump Show Comes to the Kennedy Center

Can the fifty-four-year-old arts hub weather the next four years?

The Crossword: Tuesday, April 8, 2025

A moderately challenging puzzle.

The Other Side of Signalgate

The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.

When I Met the New Dire Wolves

D. T. Max on the startup reversing extinction. Plus: how Trump crushed the stock market; and Seth Rogen’s notes on Hollywood.

In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning

The Michelle Williams-led series, about a woman seeking erotic fulfillment amid a terminal diagnosis, starts off as an unorthodox comedy—then deepens into something far better.

Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 7th

Which is it?

How Donald Trump Crushed the Stock Market

The President’s tariff policy isn’t strategic protectionism; it’s economic self-harm.

Return of the Plastic Straw

Paper straws are out at the Department of Justice. Also banned: Dijon mustard, flimsy paper napkins, and the word “Whiffenpoof.”

“Cirrus”

“ ‘I don’t have time,’ I told / myself, ‘To kill myself: I have / to write a paper on Rimbaud.’ ”