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A Year of Listening Beyond the Algorithm

My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one of the golden eras of college radio. I spent a…

The year of the tactical vest

In late October, dozens of federal law enforcement officers flooded Canal street, a busy thoroughfare in Manhattan, arresting street vendors. Some officers donned full military uniforms;…

The Year in Slop

2025 in Review New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. The Turing test, a long-established tool for measuring machine intelligence, gauges the point at which a…

The New Republic’s Books of the Year 2025

Some of the books we chose this year touched familiarly big themes: the place of the United States in the Americas; the weakness of democracy in the U.S. and what it would take to shore it…

The Year in Trump Cashing In

On January 17, 2025, three days before Trump’s second Inauguration, he took another leap into the crypto world, releasing a new meme coin: $TRUMP. The day before the ceremony, his wife,…

How 2025 Became the Year of the Luxury VIC

With aspirational customers evaporating by the millions, 2025 was the year of the VIC. An acronym for “very important customer,” the term designates a cohort that was seemingly immune to…