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Aesthetically speaking, Alex Garland’s latest film, “Civil War,” is finely crafted. “As prophecy, however, it’s not so illuminating,” Andrew Marantz writes. nyer.cm/q7S4d7Z

I went up to Columbia last Wednesday morning, and I’ve been reporting on it since. Here’s what I saw and heard newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

I'm working late / 'cause I'm a Singer

I spoke to the dreaded Isaac Chotiner. In my defense I had a hangover. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/t…

In an interview with Andrew Marantz, the comedian Jerrod Carmichael reflects on reaching a professional high while simultaneously hitting a personal low with his HBO special “Rothaniel” and his new effort to “Truman Show” himself. nyer.cm/BsIwB9D

Interesting that Teamsters president Sean O'Brien is getting (by far) the most time of anyone onstage, while not endorsing Trump. First time you've heard an attack on the Chamber of Commerce at an RNC - "they are unions for big business" - which got the faintest applause.

I’m biased, but also: this genuinely made me laugh out loud. Check it out!

On a new episode of The Political Scene, The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt to reflect on the D.N.C.’s use of “cringe-millennial culture” to contrast itself with the macho bravado of Donald Trump’s R.N.C. Listen here. nyer.cm/g2JXutr

The New Yorker staff writers Kyle Chayka, Andrew Marantz, and Jia Tolentino bring online battlegrounds to the real world with the writer @naomiaklein. Buy tickets now: newyorkerfest.visitlink.me/CLqecP

Love this Andrew Marantz piece in next week's @newyorker. Real-world politics, with nerdy but essential questions of political science. What the heck are parties for? newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

hah in this great Andrew Marantz feature "why it was so hard for the democrats to replace Biden" newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

This year’s Democratic National Convention, which once seemed poised to be a poker-faced slog, instead became an “ecstatic celebration,” Andrew Marantz writes. But it could easily have gone the other way. nyer.cm/TVRe5bW

It’s one banana, Michael, how much could it cost?

.Andrew Marantz reports from the D.N.C., where Democrats seem rejuvenated by their new candidate, and considers why it was so difficult for them to get one in the first place. nyer.cm/32YQnuo

Good answer here for the swing demo of Orban Moms

.Andrew Marantz reports from Michigan on the activists who urged Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in the primary to protest President Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza, and who have declined to endorse Kamala Harris in the general. nyer.cm/LNINQLe