The New Yorker

After the 2024 election, Democratic strategists argued that the Party needed to make inroads with young voters—especially young men. Andrew Marantz talks to Hasan Piker, a leftist Twitch streamer whose audience skews young, male, and disaffected. https://lnkd.in/gZEjgUAZ

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While working in the emergency department of Al-Aqsa Hospital, in central Gaza, the doctor Ayesha Khan saw what could happen when a patient was given a chance. https://lnkd.in/gDfs6NqV

Under Jonathan Anderson’s stewardship, Loewe became both a darling among critics and a commercial dynamo. His emphasis on bridging fashion and craft, and bringing them both under the umbrella of art, makes the wearers of his creations feel as if they were doing something more cerebral and aesthetically elevated than merely consuming luxury goods. Anderson preferred to characterize Loewe as a cultural brand rather than a luxury one, finding the latter term despoiled. “The luxury brand became as mass as the mass brand,” he said. Instead, he argued, a fashion house like Loewe should offer its followers a form of aesthetic aspiration, and also a form of education, in part by introducing them to living and historical artists and to designers whose work they otherwise might not encounter. Today, Anderson announced that he would be leaving Loewe after 11 years as the brand’s creative director. It’s rumored that he will soon be appointed at Dior. Read Rebecca Mead’s new Profile of Anderson, in which she writes about how the designer reimagined Loewe—and what might be next: https://lnkd.in/g9_Esa3s

A new archetype is emerging in contemporary TV: “Mr. Hurt but Good. Old Sad Eyes,” Vinson Cunningham writes. In shows like “Paradise,” “Severance,” and “American Primeval,” widowers drive the plot to poignant effect. “The loss of their beloveds has wounded them but also cleared the way for the courage they display amid thickening intrigues,” Cunningham notes. “These posthumous men have already survived an apocalypse of a kind. Why not instigate another?” Read more: https://lnkd.in/gwKWJmxe

From “Mushroom Hunting at the Ski Basin,” by Arthur Sze. Read it in full: https://lnkd.in/gb9D7D95

In late 2024, shortly before a ceasefire curbed the violence in Gaza, the doctor Ayesha Khan was on a monthlong medical mission to Al-Aqsa Hospital, in central Gaza, lending her emergency-medicine expertise to local doctors. “Almost every day, we responded to a mass-casualty incident—an event that overwhelms the resources of the hospital. On many days, we experienced more than one,” Khan writes. After an air strike in Nuseirat, Khan encountered a four-year-old patient. An emergency-medicine resident said, “Hopeless case,” and the nurses agreed. Someone noted that brain matter was spilling out of her head wound, which was true. But, to Khan, that meant an open fracture—which would leave room for the girl’s brain to decompress instead of swelling until it hit bone. “We have to try,” she said. The girl, who is named Seela, underwent surgery. In the weeks that followed, Seela struggled—she developed an infection and had no access to fresh meat, eggs, milk, fruit, or vegetables. But two weeks after her surgery, she was moving all of her extremities and talking. Before Khan left Gaza, Seela was discharged to her aunt. “Lately, the world has been seeing apocalyptic images of the devastation in northern Gaza—a landscape without sewage, running water, or machines to clear rubble. I can imagine people saying, ‘Hopeless case,’ Khan writes. “To have hope, you have to believe that something better is possible, something that you can play a role in building. It can feel easier to give up or look away. But we should remember that silence and complicity don’t harm only the oppressed. They corrode everyone’s humanity.” Read Khan’s reflections on what could happen when a patient is given a chance: https://lnkd.in/ghg7cpXp

President Trump has adopted William McKinley as a role model. But in purloining a simplistic version of McKinley’s attitudes toward tariffs, Trump is ignoring the valuable lessons they have to offer. https://lnkd.in/gVGiPniM

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Meredith Southard. #NewYorkerCartoons https://lnkd.in/gyZimJdc

Amy Sherald’s cover for this week’s Spring Style & Design issue issue, “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance).” #NewYorkerCovers Read the full issue: https://lnkd.in/g2DfGR9Q