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Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price. That rarely happens. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?
Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made “reverse logistics” into a booming new industry.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price. That rarely happens. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The inaugural TikTok Awards were “just an honest, if amplified, reflection of what life in public was now like,” Naomi Fry writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
The Weirdly Refreshing Honesty of the Oscars of TikTok
The app might wreak havoc on users’ mental health, but there was a satisfying frankness at the gathering about the fact that everything in life is now fodder for content.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The inaugural TikTok Awards were “just an honest, if amplified, reflection of what life in public was now like,” Naomi Fry writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Will the Gaza peace plan advance, or harden into a permanent order? A meeting at Mar-a-Lago today may be a reckoning for the stalled scheme. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ubsMPd
A Reckoning for the Stalled Gaza Peace Plan
A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may determine whether the agreement advances—or hardens into a permanent order.
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December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Will the Gaza peace plan advance, or harden into a permanent order? A meeting at Mar-a-Lago today may be a reckoning for the stalled scheme. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ubsMPd
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/e9iw2n
Play Laugh Lines No. 52: Wildlife
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
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December 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/e9iw2n
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by P. C. Vey. #NewYorkerCartoons
December 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by P. C. Vey. #NewYorkerCartoons
Today’s theme: 2025 in music. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/sbLbfz
The Holiday Crossword: Monday, December 29, 2025
Today’s theme: 2025 in music.
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December 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today’s theme: 2025 in music. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/sbLbfz
Why today’s meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may be the most consequential moment for the stalled Gaza peace plan. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/KJMnJG
A Reckoning for the Stalled Gaza Peace Plan
A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may determine whether the agreement advances—or hardens into a permanent order.
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December 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Why today’s meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may be the most consequential moment for the stalled Gaza peace plan. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/KJMnJG
After gaining mainstream stardom in the Spanish-speaking world in the 2000s, the Mexican artist Natalia Lafourcade made a startling pivot to folk music. Jack Herrera profiles the former teen pop star who has become a new emblem of “Veracruz sound.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CgXM46
Natalia Lafourcade Reimagines Mexican Folk Music
The former teen pop star has become a new emblem of “Veracruz sound.”
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December 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
After gaining mainstream stardom in the Spanish-speaking world in the 2000s, the Mexican artist Natalia Lafourcade made a startling pivot to folk music. Jack Herrera profiles the former teen pop star who has become a new emblem of “Veracruz sound.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CgXM46
A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may determine whether the agreement advances—or hardens into a permanent order. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/eLKgWD
A Reckoning for the Stalled Gaza Peace Plan
A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may determine whether the agreement advances—or hardens into a permanent order.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may determine whether the agreement advances—or hardens into a permanent order. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/eLKgWD
A cartoon by Harriet Burbeck. #NewYorkerCartoons
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December 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A cartoon by Harriet Burbeck. #NewYorkerCartoons
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The snow kept David Sedaris and his sisters home from school for five days—long enough, he writes, for his mother to have “a little breakdown.”
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Let It Snow
The snow kept David Sedaris and his sisters home from school for five days—long enough, he writes, for his mother to have “a little breakdown.”
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December 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The snow kept David Sedaris and his sisters home from school for five days—long enough, he writes, for his mother to have “a little breakdown.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
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“This time last year, leaders like [Sam] Altman were making it sound like we’d raced over a technological cliff, and that we were tumbling chaotically toward an automated workforce. Such breathlessness now seems rash,” Cal Newport writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/k2Fp3C
Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025
This was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“This time last year, leaders like [Sam] Altman were making it sound like we’d raced over a technological cliff, and that we were tumbling chaotically toward an automated workforce. Such breathlessness now seems rash,” Cal Newport writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/k2Fp3C
TikTok is known as the brain-rot app, but its inaugural award ceremony is surprisingly frank about the realities of the platform and those who make a living from it. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
The Weirdly Refreshing Honesty of the Oscars of TikTok
The app might wreak havoc on users’ mental health, but there was a satisfying frankness at the gathering about the fact that everything in life is now fodder for content.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
TikTok is known as the brain-rot app, but its inaugural award ceremony is surprisingly frank about the realities of the platform and those who make a living from it. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Americans are the world’s leading refund seekers; a forest’s worth of artificial Christmas trees goes back every January, bags of green plastic Easter grass go back every spring, and returns of large-screen TVs surge immediately following the Super Bowl. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AdGf0G
What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?
Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made “reverse logistics” into a booming new industry.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Americans are the world’s leading refund seekers; a forest’s worth of artificial Christmas trees goes back every January, bags of green plastic Easter grass go back every spring, and returns of large-screen TVs surge immediately following the Super Bowl. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AdGf0G
Natalia Lafourcade’s song “Hasta la raíz,” released not long before Donald Trump’s first term, has served as a sort of anthem of resistance for Mexicans in the United States amid escalating ICE raids. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/1mxM7y
Natalia Lafourcade Reimagines Mexican Folk Music
The former teen pop star has become a new emblem of “Veracruz sound.”
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Natalia Lafourcade’s song “Hasta la raíz,” released not long before Donald Trump’s first term, has served as a sort of anthem of resistance for Mexicans in the United States amid escalating ICE raids. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/1mxM7y
“Mama, this hat is definitely the wrong shape for your head.” www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...
Finding a Kid-Approved Winter Look
“Mama, this hat is definitely the wrong shape for your head.”
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December 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Mama, this hat is definitely the wrong shape for your head.” www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...
The time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is the Sunday afternoon of the year. Here’s what to cook to get you through it. www.newyorker.com/culture/kitc...
What to Cook Over Christmas and New Year’s
This week is perfect for finally making all the cookies and slow braises and odd little dishes that I’d intended to put together in the first part of the month and just never did.
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December 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is the Sunday afternoon of the year. Here’s what to cook to get you through it. www.newyorker.com/culture/kitc...
The former teen pop star has become a new emblem of “Veracruz sound.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/KI4YAC
Natalia Lafourcade Reimagines Mexican Folk Music
The former teen pop star has become a new emblem of “Veracruz sound.”
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The former teen pop star has become a new emblem of “Veracruz sound.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/KI4YAC
More than 40 per cent of millennials and Gen Z-ers claim to have signed a prenup. Is that a good thing? Jennifer Wilson set out to discover the verdict—and why they are on the rise among younger generations. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xAvJJV
Why Millennials Love Prenups
Long the province of the ultra-wealthy, prenuptial agreements are being embraced by young people—including many who don’t have all that much to divvy up.
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December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
More than 40 per cent of millennials and Gen Z-ers claim to have signed a prenup. Is that a good thing? Jennifer Wilson set out to discover the verdict—and why they are on the rise among younger generations. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xAvJJV
The writer Naomi Fry attends the refreshingly honest TikTok Awards ceremony. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
The Weirdly Refreshing Honesty of the Oscars of TikTok
The app might wreak havoc on users’ mental health, but there was a satisfying frankness at the gathering about the fact that everything in life is now fodder for content.
www.newyorker.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The writer Naomi Fry attends the refreshingly honest TikTok Awards ceremony. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
The author discusses her novella “The Ice-Skater.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ZzMPZX
Kanak Kapur on Migrant Labor and Skating in Dubai
The author discusses her novella “The Ice-Skater.”
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December 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The author discusses her novella “The Ice-Skater.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ZzMPZX
A cartoon by Enrico Pinto. #NewYorkerCartoons
December 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A cartoon by Enrico Pinto. #NewYorkerCartoons
For some online apparel retailers, returns now average 40% of sales. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?
Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made “reverse logistics” into a booming new industry.
www.newyorker.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
For some online apparel retailers, returns now average 40% of sales. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered on general-purpose A.I. www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025
This was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered.
www.newyorker.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered on general-purpose A.I. www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
“This was the record that made me feel the most hopeful about the future of popular music, all the ways in which the form can still be subverted and made dangerous.” Find out what record Amanda Petrusich is talking about on her Best Albums of 2025 list.
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The Best Albums of 2025
There are plenty of albums that might have made the cut on a different day. But good list-making requires hubris, constraint. A moment of wild and fearless conviction.
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December 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“This was the record that made me feel the most hopeful about the future of popular music, all the ways in which the form can still be subverted and made dangerous.” Find out what record Amanda Petrusich is talking about on her Best Albums of 2025 list.
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newyorkermag.visitlink.me/LVygg6