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The cover of this week’s issue is “Winds of Change,” by Brian Stauffer. See what’s inside:
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What is Donald Trump legally allowed to do with the military? Jeannie Suk Gersen on the President’s efforts to deploy troops to cities.

The Real Problem Is How Trump Can Legally Use the Military

Congress wrote statutes with the apparent assumption that whoever held the office of the Presidency would use the powers they granted in good faith.

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There was a time when the Kansas City Chiefs were beloved as the fun, thrilling underdogs in the N.F.L. But they’ve since become the team that people loved to hate, @louisathomas.bsky.social writes.

The Kansas City Chiefs Are Depressing

The team’s vibes might change if they start winning, and they usually do. But is it possible to win all the time without losing joy and spontaneity?

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In a new essay, Garcia writes about earning parole—and seeing Taylor Swift perform in person, at the final U.S. stop of the Eras tour.

From Life in Prison to the Eras Tour

While serving time for murder, Joe Garcia heard Taylor Swift’s music and thought of the woman he loved. Last year, they were reunited.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3h

In 2023, Joe Garcia wrote about becoming a fan of Taylor Swift in prison. “When I listened to her music, I felt that I was still part of the world I had left behind.”

Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison

Her music makes me feel that I’m still part of the world I left behind.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12h

From 1994: Alec Wilkinson interviews one of America’s most notorious killers, John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted, in 1980, of murdering 33 boys. #NewYorkerArchive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/04/18/conversations-with-a-killer

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14h

Tenzing Norkay had been on more Everest expeditions than any other man when he reached the top, in 1953. #NewYorkerArchive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/06/05/tenzing-of-everest

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In #NewYorkerHumor: Ghislaine Maxwell writes an honest letter with absolutely no ulterior motives, courtesy of Larry David. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/a-letter-from-ghislaine-maxwell

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“Why Cubism had to be invented still puzzles a large public,” Janet Flanner wrote, in 1939. Revisit her Profile of the artist who would come to “dominate” the movement: Pablo Picasso. #NewYorkerArchive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/03/09/the-surprise-of-the-century-i

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Baseball is America’s pastime and football America’s sport, but rodeo may as well be America itself: raw courage along with pure idiocy, a never-ending tug of war between myth and reality, Casey Cep writes. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-guts-and-glory-of-indian-rodeo

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Diane Keaton, who died today, at 79, was “one of the most comedically pure and brainy actresses in our midst,” Penelope Gilliatt wrote, in 1978. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/12/25/diane-keaton-her-own-best-disputant

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20h

During the First World War, Louis and Antoinette Thuillier created thousands of glass negatives containing photographs of soldiers. The digitized images are astonishingly clear: you can read the date of a newspaper folded on a lap. http://nyer.cm/74Hzfpm

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20h

“We’ll tell our grandkids that we defeated fascism with six-dollar clickers”: how a group of community activists is tracking ICE’s movements in Los Angeles.

The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los Angeles

How a small group of activists dubbed the “Peace Patrol” stymie the deployment of federal agents in California.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22h

See more job postings from ICE, courtesy of New Yorker Humor: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/ice-job-postings

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"How is it possible to hate something so completely and then suddenly love it so unreasonably? How does such a change occur?" Zadie Smith on how she came to appreciate the music of Joni Mitchell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/17/some-notes-on-attunement

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“I feel like comedy is harder,” the actor Rose Byrne told Michael Schulman. “We can all collectively agree when something is sad, but when something is funny it’s a far more subjective thing."

Rose Byrne Hits the Mother Lode

Between her new film, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” and her Apple TV+ series “Platonic,” the actress has created a diptych of stressed-out moms.

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A cartoon by Roz Chast, from 2013. #NewYorkerCartoons

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By presenting us with bodies and not faces, the photographer Coreen Simpson engages in a kind of anti-representation. She remakes, in her masked nudes, “the Black woman as an icon of withholding,” Doreen St. Félix writes.

The Erotics of Coreen Simpson

The photographer presents the Black woman as an icon of withholding.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

At first, Susan Orlean was hesitant to sign on to “Adaptation.” Then she changed her mind. “I began to feel as if I had been offered a ticket for a very strange amusement-park ride, one that I might later regret not taking,” she writes.

The Making of “Adaptation”

When your quirky book becomes a quirkier movie.

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Rose Byrne’s performance as a mother fighting through a Job-like litany of misfortunes in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” is getting early Oscar buzz. Michael Schulman spends time with the versatile Australian actor. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/un8Uw7

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A cartoon by Edward Steed. #NewYorkerCartoons

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For the past 15 years, as the country has frayed at its patriotic seams, the photographer Jeremiah Murphy spent hours capturing the beauty of a deeply American sport: rodeo. See more of his photographs: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/PvHkwX

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For Benjamin Netanyahu, the political ramifications of the Gaza ceasefire are still unknown, Ruth Margalit writes. His extremist coalition partners have threatened to topple his government if the Israeli military withdrew entirely from Gaza. http://nyer.cm/PdmmQrv

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Jay Capsian Kang writes about how the internet has deepened the cracks in our fracturing sense of shared reality—and how many Americans have come to embrace a conspiratorial world view. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/XEjaFK

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See more job postings from ICE, courtesy of New Yorker Humor: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/UDJPAZ

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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by P. C. Vey. #NewYorkerCartoons

Get more cartoons and other funny stuff when you sign up for our humor newsletter: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vKRskx

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