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This vintage, tattered cat automata perfectly describes how I feel before I've had my morning coffee. The cat automata looks like it's on its last legs with its gaping mouth and tortured looking eyeballs.  — Read the rest

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Dalmatian, e.g.: five letters.

Drawings from the November 25, 2024, magazine.

“Better to fall / out of a cloud than from / a third-story window.”

“Women’s Hotel,” “Under the Eye of the Big Bird,” “By the Fire We Carry,” and “Alexander von Humboldt.”

The agency, known for listening, is getting into the (extremely vetted) talking game, with “No Such Podcast.”

Sudden glimpses of urban artistry.

Though Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett shared a mission, they took very different approaches. Their ensuing rivalry was political, sometimes even personal.

Since the Civil War, the Erben organ has imbued St. Patrick’s Basilica with “a tinge of sadness.”

The list of issues I was right about goes on and on. Guns? Kamala Harris owns too many, but also not enough.

George C. Wolfe finds inspiration for his production—starring Audra McDonald as Broadway’s first Black Mama Rose—watching the pasties twirl at a burlesque show.

The artist Samantha Nye tries to drum up models for a shoot of a female-only “pleasure party” at the Belvedere Guest House, the all-male gay compound.

“America, like hope’s sharp pencil, / winks brightly beyond a gantlet of elegant shill.”

From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study.

Readers respond to Nicholas Lemann’s article on Bidenomics, Kathryn Schulz’s essay on animal mortality, and Jazmine Hughes’s piece on Alpha Kappa Alpha.

After spending more than a hundred million dollars to help Trump get elected, Musk stands to earn a lot more.

Democrats have often described Latinos as decisive when they support liberal candidates and inconsequential when they don’t.

With “Nightbitch”—in which Amy Adams turns into a dog—the director portrays parenting as a visceral transformation.

Had I proposed earlier that we invite someone stranded to come with us to New York, Hugh would have said no. But now there was really no way for him to back out.

One of the notes on potential jurors read, “I liked him better than any other Jew But No Way,” then added, “Must Kick, too Risky.”

In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.

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Have the Penguins ushered in a new youth movement with the emergence of several young players?

More and more Big Apple youngsters are getting busted by police, as New York State's broken juvenile justice system continues to fail troubled teens.