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Weekend reading from this week's issue: "Inside Russia’s Secret Campaign of Sabotage in Europe" by Joshua Yaffa. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/09?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
Inside Russia’s Secret Campaign of Sabotage in Europe
How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across Europe.
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February 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Weekend reading from this week's issue: "Inside Russia’s Secret Campaign of Sabotage in Europe" by Joshua Yaffa. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/09?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
Another pick from the February 9 issue: "This Is How It Happens" by Molly Aitken. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/09?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
“This Is How It Happens”
Fiction by Molly Aitken, the author of “Bright I Burn”: Everyone loves you here. Most days you are pretty sure of that. Everyone touches you all the time.
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February 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Another pick from the February 9 issue: "This Is How It Happens" by Molly Aitken. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/09?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
In 2013, Dr. Oz told Michael Specter: "Medicine is a very religious experience. I have my religion and you have yours... it's my fact versus your fact."
He now runs Medicare and Medicaid with a $1.7 trillion budget.
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2013/02/04
He now runs Medicare and Medicaid with a $1.7 trillion budget.
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2013/02/04
Dr. Oz, the Operator by Michael Specter | February 4, 2013 | New Yorkerest
Michael Specter's "Dr. Oz, the Operator" — Featured pick from The New Yorker's February 4, 2013 issue.
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February 5, 2026 at 5:18 PM
In 2013, Dr. Oz told Michael Specter: "Medicine is a very religious experience. I have my religion and you have yours... it's my fact versus your fact."
He now runs Medicare and Medicaid with a $1.7 trillion budget.
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2013/02/04
He now runs Medicare and Medicaid with a $1.7 trillion budget.
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2013/02/04
"Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long Game" by Nathan Heller (@nathanheller.bsky.social) is our pick from the February 9, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/09?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long Game
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February 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
"Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long Game" by Nathan Heller (@nathanheller.bsky.social) is our pick from the February 9, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/09?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
Weekend reading from this week's issue: "What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizing—and Infighting" by Charles Duhigg. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/02?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizing—and Infighting
Republicans have become adept at creating broad coalitions in which supporting Trump is the only requirement. Democrats get tied up with litmus tests.
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February 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Weekend reading from this week's issue: "What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizing—and Infighting" by Charles Duhigg. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/02?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
Another pick from the February 2, 2026 issue: "Trump’s Greenland Fiasco" by Joshua Yaffa. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/02?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
Trump’s Greenland Fiasco
The President caused a crisis inNATOand deepened European distrust toward the U.S. to end up with basically the same set of options that existed months ago.
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January 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Another pick from the February 2, 2026 issue: "Trump’s Greenland Fiasco" by Joshua Yaffa. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/02?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
Every anxiety captured by Sam Knight's (@samknightwrites.bsky.social) profile of David Lammy a year ago has played out almost exactly as feared: Chagos vulnerable to Trump, Ukraine peace on US terms, EU reset too timid, Britain strategically adrift. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2025/01/27
January 27, 2025 Issue | New Yorkerest
Featured: "Britain’s Foreign Secretary Braces for the Second Trump Age" — Curated picks from The New Yorker's January 27, 2025 issue.
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January 29, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Every anxiety captured by Sam Knight's (@samknightwrites.bsky.social) profile of David Lammy a year ago has played out almost exactly as feared: Chagos vulnerable to Trump, Ukraine peace on US terms, EU reset too timid, Britain strategically adrift. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2025/01/27
"Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning?" by Ben Taub is our pick from the February 2, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/02?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning?
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January 27, 2026 at 5:35 PM
"Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning?" by Ben Taub is our pick from the February 2, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/02?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
Weekend reading from this week's issue: "Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran but Not in Minneapolis" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/26?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran but Not in Minneapolis
During the President’s second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically.
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January 25, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Weekend reading from this week's issue: "Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran but Not in Minneapolis" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/26?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
Another pick from the January 26, 2026 issue: "The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees" by Jonathan Blitzer (@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social). https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/26?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees
LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her New Jersey district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
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January 23, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Another pick from the January 26, 2026 issue: "The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees" by Jonathan Blitzer (@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social). https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/26?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
A sculptor who folds works into suitcases, insists nothing is fixed, and found immortality in something 'cheaper than a penny, fragile enough to tear by hand.' A portrait of El Anatsui by Julian Lucas, 5 years ago this week. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2021/01/18
January 22, 2026 at 5:09 PM
A sculptor who folds works into suitcases, insists nothing is fixed, and found immortality in something 'cheaper than a penny, fragile enough to tear by hand.' A portrait of El Anatsui by Julian Lucas, 5 years ago this week. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2021/01/18
"Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News" by Clare Malone (@claremalone.bsky.social) is our pick from the January 26, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/26?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News
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January 20, 2026 at 5:19 PM
"Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News" by Clare Malone (@claremalone.bsky.social) is our pick from the January 26, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/26?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
Weekend reading from this week's issue: "How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation" by Sam Knight (@samknightwrites.bsky.social). https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/19?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there?
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January 18, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Weekend reading from this week's issue: "How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation" by Sam Knight (@samknightwrites.bsky.social). https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/19?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
Another pick from the January 19, 2026 issue: "Donald Trump Was Never an Isolationist" by Daniel Immerwahr. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/19?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
Donald Trump Was Never an Isolationist
He once defied the G.O.P. by blasting military interventions. But what looked like anti-interventionism is really a preference for power freed from the pretense of principle.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Another pick from the January 19, 2026 issue: "Donald Trump Was Never an Isolationist" by Daniel Immerwahr. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/19?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
“I have never since seen a young man who so plainly felt the urgency to marry not just a certain girl but that girl’s whole family.”
- The Captain's Son by Peter Taylor (50 years ago this week)
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/1976/01/12
- The Captain's Son by Peter Taylor (50 years ago this week)
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/1976/01/12
January 12, 1976 Issue | New Yorkerest
Featured: "The Captain's Son" — Curated picks from The New Yorker's January 12, 1976 issue.
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January 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
“I have never since seen a young man who so plainly felt the urgency to marry not just a certain girl but that girl’s whole family.”
- The Captain's Son by Peter Taylor (50 years ago this week)
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/1976/01/12
- The Captain's Son by Peter Taylor (50 years ago this week)
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/1976/01/12
"How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler" by Dexter Filkins is our pick from the January 19, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/19?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler
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January 13, 2026 at 10:10 PM
"How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler" by Dexter Filkins is our pick from the January 19, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/19?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
This piece from 100 years ago this week reflects on politics as a dull subject that makes even pleasant people tediously earnest.
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/1926/01/09
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/1926/01/09
January 9, 1926 Issue | New Yorkerest
Featured: ""Tiger, Tiger"" — Curated picks from The New Yorker's January 9, 1926 issue.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:14 AM
This piece from 100 years ago this week reflects on politics as a dull subject that makes even pleasant people tediously earnest.
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/1926/01/09
https://newyorkerest.com/issue/1926/01/09
"The Making of the First American Pope" by Paul Elie is our pick from the January 12, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/12?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
The Making of the First American Pope
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January 6, 2026 at 10:09 PM
"The Making of the First American Pope" by Paul Elie is our pick from the January 12, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/01/12?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
"Peter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man" by Ian Parker is our pick from the December 29, 2025 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2025/12/29?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
Peter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man
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December 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Peter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man" by Ian Parker is our pick from the December 29, 2025 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2025/12/29?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
"History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along" by Michael Luo is our pick from the December 22, 2025 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2025/12/22
History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along
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December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along" by Michael Luo is our pick from the December 22, 2025 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2025/12/22
"The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean" by Jonathan Blitzer is our pick from the December 15, 2025 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2025/12/15
The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean
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December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean" by Jonathan Blitzer is our pick from the December 15, 2025 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2025/12/15