How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran

Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.

Related

Other articles with overlapping topics.

The New Yorker

Free quota

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

How golden is silence, actually? The secret history of shutting up.

Anthony Lane·Aug 3, 2026·15 min read

The New Yorker

Free quota

An Uncompromising Belgian Novelist’s Afterlife as a BookTok Star

Jacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era.

Katy Waldman·Aug 3, 2026·10 min read

The New Yorker

Free quota

How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything

How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media.

Kai Bird·Aug 3, 2026·34 min read

The New Yorker

Free quota

The American Art of Blowing Stuff Up

Fireworks by Grucci has been in the pyrotechnics business for six generations.

Paige Williams·Aug 3, 2026·27 min read

The New Yorker

Free quota

The Future, Made in China

Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.

Evan Osnos·Aug 3, 2026·45 min read

The New Yorker

Free quota

The Man Who Was Kidnapped Twice

Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again.

Alexis Okeowo·Aug 3, 2026·22 min read