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Short story: the great and recently deceased Alice Munro, "Face". ( www.newyorker.com )

A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It? ( www.newyorker.com )

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It’s a Climate Election Now | Trump’s reported billion-dollar offer to fossil-fuel executives shows that this is the key year to save the planet. ( www.newyorker.com )

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Hundreds of counties around the USA have ended in-person jail visits, replacing them with video calls and earning a cut of the profits ( www.newyorker.com )

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240515104635/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/the-jails-that-forbid-children-from-visiting-their-parents

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of Chaos ( www.newyorker.com )

Feb. 2023 New Yorker profile unknowingly giving a prelude of what was to come....

What George Kelly’s Mistrial Says About How We See the Border ( www.newyorker.com )

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240430115704/https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/what-george-kellys-mistrial-says-about-how-we-see-the-border

Inside Israel’s Bombing Campaign in Gaza: Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham on his investigations of the I.D.F.’s use of A.I.-backed targeting systems ( www.newyorker.com )

An excellent interview from the journalist whose investigative reporting exposed the extensive use of machine learning systems by Israel to target Hamas members while at home with their families.

Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore ( www.newyorker.com )

TIL that up to 3.7% of pregnancies have misattributed paternity where the child (and possibly the mother) thought the father was someone else ( www.newyorker.com )

[2018] Israel Kills Dozens of Mostly Unarmed Protesters in Gaza as Jared Kushner Speaks of Peace, in Jerusalem ( www.newyorker.com )

The Magic of Bird Brains: Crows are smart enough to pick up trash. Why won’t they? ( www.newyorker.com )

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Is the Fight Against Climate Change Losing Momentum? Some financial institutions are backing away from emission pledges. ( www.newyorker.com )

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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson ( www.newyorker.com )

What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? ( www.newyorker.com )

The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza ( www.newyorker.com )

More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?

The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza ( www.newyorker.com )

More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?

Why Is the Sea So Hot? A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing. ( www.newyorker.com )

OK doomer ( www.newyorker.com )

The New Yorker has a piece on the Bay Area AI doomer and e/acc scenes....

The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I. | How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy? ( www.newyorker.com )

The Magic of Bird Brains ( www.newyorker.com )

Crows are smart enough to pick up trash. Why won’t they?

The Deep Sea Is Filled with Treasure, but It Comes at a Price ( www.newyorker.com )

Joe Biden’s Last Campaign ( www.newyorker.com )

Said Biden: “Losers who are losers are never graceful. I just think that he’ll do anything to try to win. If — and when — I win, I think he’ll contest it. No matter what the result is.”

Joe Biden’s Last Campaign ( www.newyorker.com )

For better and worse, he is a more solemn figure now. His voice is thin and clotted, and his gestures have slowed, but, in our conversation, his mind seemed unchanged. He never bungled a name or a date. At one point, he pulled out a white notecard inscribed with some of Trump’s most alarming comments: his threat to terminate...