The New Yorker

• The Best Books We’ve Read in 2025 So Far

  Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

• Is Social Media More Like Cigarettes or Junk Food?

  Lawmakers attempting to regulate children’s access to social media must decide whether bans or warning labels are the optimal route for keeping kids safe.

• How the Academy Awards Have Adapted to Catastrophe

  The L.A. wildfires have resurfaced an old question: Are times too dark for a glitzy awards ceremony?

• Should You Question Everything?

  In “Open Socrates,” the philosopher Agnes Callard reminds us how thinking should feel.

• What D.C. Saw at Donald Trump’s Second Inauguration

  Thousands of MAGA supporters poured into the Capital One Arena as the new Administration took shape in ballrooms across the city.

• Donald Trump Invents an Energy Emergency

  The Day One executive orders call for more drilling—something that, really, nobody wants.

• Other Apps the Government Might as Well Ban

  Candy Crush, so that we may all have relationships with our mothers again.

• Under the Radar Keeps Rollin’ Along

  Highlights include a spare reworking of the 1927 musical “Show Boat” and a surprisingly touching new piece by the shock connoisseur Ann Liv Young.

• What Trump 2.0 Means for Ukraine and the World

  The President’s various foreign-policy “personas” vacillate between a desire for domination and withdrawal.

• Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 21st

  “I get it, honey, but it’s your night to make dinner.”