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The Lede

What the Video of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Might Do

Parents have less and less control over what their children see. Our children will likely understand history, and the world, very differently as a result.
Critic’s Notebook

Warped Ways of Seeing “P.O.V.”

How our ideas about point of view got all turned around.
Infinite Scroll

A Lesson in Creativity and Capitalism from Two Zany YouTubers

Some of the optimism of the early Internet seems to live on in the whimsical videos of James Hobson and Colin Furze.
The Front Row

The Counterculture Counter Culture of Kim’s Video

A new documentary revels in the legend of the downtown rental store and seeks to recover its treasures.
2022 in Review

An Emmy-Winning Year in New Yorker Video

In more than eighty short projects, filmmakers explored the personal and the political, subverting tropes and expectations.
Under Review

How YouTube Created the Attention Economy

“Like, Comment, Subscribe,” a new history of the platform by Mark Bergen, makes the case that YouTube cracked the code for turning the desire to watch and be watched into money.
A Reporter at Large

The Fight to Hold Pornhub Accountable

For years, nonconsensual videos flourished on the Internet. How have adult sites been reined in?
Pop Music

Petey’s Earnest Songs and Absurd TikToks

He has become famous online for silly and sweet comedy videos. Now fans are discovering his music.
The New Yorker Documentary

A Son’s Note from Prison: “Your Love Is a Verb”

Ellie Wen’s documentary “On Mother’s Day” portrays how a parent-child bond persists through the separation of incarceration.
Video Dept.

The Day the San Francisco Sky Turned Orange

On September 9, 2020, a convergence of wildfire smoke and fog cast an eerie tint over the Bay Area.
The New Yorker Documentary

The Grim Compassion of Searching for Missing Migrants in the Desert

The humanitarian volunteer group Águilas del Desierto searches the hostile land near the U.S.-Mexico border for those who have disappeared.
The New Yorker Documentary

An Aging Burlesque Dancer’s Unlikely Romance

“Coby and Stephen Are in Love” traces a partnership forged late in life and steeped in art.
Satire from The Borowitz Report

Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Video of Her Is Actually George Soros in Disguise

“Whenever I donate clothes to a consignment shop, Soros gets a ping on his phone and buys it all up,” the congresswoman alleged.
Letter from Colorado

Trolling the Great Outdoors

As the wilderness gets overrun, the most hated man in the Rockies finds an audience of emulators and antagonists.
Profiles

Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation

The filmmaker left an art world he found too white; years later, he made a triumphant return with “Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death.”
Video Dept.

How to Draw a Wedding

The ceremony’s abundance of weird tropes and traditions make it perfect fodder for wiseacre caricatures.
Video Dept.

How to Draw Intrusive Thoughts

These are the kinds of thoughts that make you truly believe that you’ll never sleep again, until you do, and then spend the next day laughing at your midnight self.
Dept. of Laughs

The Comedy Writers Who Try to Make Cuomo Cool

With the help of Paul Rudd, a pair of “Tonight Show” staffers were tasked by the Governor’s office with making a P.S.A. to get millennials to mask up.
Video Dept.

Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax on the Role of Music in Dark Times

At the New Yorker Festival, the musicians talked with Alex Ross about how performance has changed during the pandemic and music that Beethoven composed “amid tears and sorrow.”
Video Dept.

Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin on Comedy and Paying Attention

At The New Yorker Festival, Seinfeld explains why, for him, the essence of comedy is irritability.