The New Yorker

2 days ago | newyorker.com | Clare Malone

How the paper that brought down Richard Nixon is struggling to survive the second term of Donald Trump. Plus:“Bezos is trying to do a real job with the Washington Post,” Trump has said, “and that wasn’t happening before.” Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; Source photographs from The Washington Post / Getty; Samir Hussein / GettyI became a Washington Post reader twenty years ago, when I moved to D.C. for college.

2 days ago | newyorker.com | Clare Malone

On a cold evening in March, a month and a half into the second Trump Administration, a crowd gathered in the Terrace Theatre at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C. Warren Buffett, the billionaire C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway, was hosting a screening party for “Becoming Katharine Graham,” a new documentary celebrating the career of the Washington Post’s legendary publisher.

2 days ago | newyorker.com | Elizabeth Kolbert

Imagine the following scenario. You are shopping for a new refrigerator. You find a few models that have the same dimensions as your old fridge. One has an ice maker, which might be convenient. Another has an interior water dispenser, which might also be convenient. A third has an ice maker and, also, the familiar blue Energy Star label. You’re having a hard time keeping all the features straight, so you decide to go with the third, knowing it will save you money on your electricity bills.

3 days ago | newyorker.com | Louisa Thomas

On Wednesday, the day after the Golden State Warriors defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game One of their second-round playoff series, Chris Finch, the Timberwolves coach, shared some thoughts with reporters about the Warriors’ style of play during the post-season. The Warriors, he said, “do a lot of fouling, holding, shoving, pushing and tackling Rudy”—as in Gobert, Minnesota’s center. The Timberwolves were forced to take matters into their own hands, he added.

3 days ago | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

On the first night of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he signed an executive order called “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” which pardoned more than fifteen hundred people who were charged or sentenced for their participation in the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Earlier in the day, Trump had appointed Ed Martin, a conservative activist and lawyer from Missouri, as the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.