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All the Sad Young Chinese Professionals
NEWS | 01 May 2026
The app seemed to challenge the Communist Party’s insistence that the Chinese people are content beneficiaries of economic and social progress. exposed the unease felt by many Chinese urbanites, and it highlighted the depths of a major social problem facing China today: loneliness. In suppressing the app, China’s authorities have made plain that they are watching the public mood and not liking what they see. Lu said he began planning the events in late 2024 and now arranges them regularly in big Chinese cities, including Shanghai and Guangzhou. Faith Hill: The bots that women use in a world of unsatisfying menIn this way, China’s young professionals resemble their similarly isolated, commitment-phobic peers in other developed countries.

Top Stories:
The ‘Great Man’ Presidency
NEWS | 01 May 2026
President Trump: Well, thank you very much. I do not think Trump read this. But what I think Trump liked is to consider himself in the long scope of immortal history. What’s the likelihood that he is correct, that he is, in fact, a great man of history—[Laughter]Rosin: —he is a norm-defying world-historical figure? There’s other cases that he looks like he’s going to lose going to the Supreme Court.

World:
The Era of Normie Extremism Is Here
NEWS | 01 May 2026
In this sense, he represents the relatively new phenomenon of normie extremism, in which people who hold otherwise mainstream political views carry out acts of political violence. I wrote about the ascent of normie extremism after Luigi Mangione allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in 2024. Today, acts of political violence in the United States are at their highest level in decades. This, the extremism expert Amy Cooter told me, is a recipe for political violence. And before long, there will likely be another apparently normal person, with ostensibly mainstream political views, who resorts to violence to make their point.

Current Events:
The Secret Weapon Against AI Dominance
NEWS | 01 May 2026
More than 90 lawsuits have been filed by creators against AI companies for copyright infringement. Cutting out human creators in favor of AI could save producers enormous sums of money. Disincentivizing content companies from relying on AI benefits consumers too. Alex Reisner: Generative AI is challenging a 234-year-old lawThis is not an argument that using AI is unethical or inherently uncreative. As AI-generated content becomes harder to distinguish from human-authored work, the temptation to pass off AI-generated content as human-made will grow.

News Flash:
Child Care Is Buckling
NEWS | 01 May 2026
Child care is a vital piece of infrastructure. More broadly, child care influences parents’ ability to participate in the labor market, which can have far-reaching economic consequences, as well as unmistakable social effects. The cost of child care has been rising for decades. This creates a vicious circle: Families that can’t afford child care tend to opt out of it altogether. (New York City has also laid out an ambitious plan for universal free child care that could, if fully funded, pave the way for free child care statewide.)

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SPONSORED | 01 May 2026
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Micah Lasher, Child Magician
NEWS | 01 May 2026
I’m meeting with Micah Lasher at a diner on the Upper West Side. But I worked for Lasher long before he turned 15. But they don’t know the Micah Lasher I knew. I met Lasher and his father, who had been an amateur magician, at a diner on the Upper West Side. He’s contemplated writing an essay about it, but feared outing himself as a weird child magician.

Breaking:
This ABC Showdown Is Different
NEWS | 01 May 2026
In September, FCC Chair Brendan Carr dangled a simple threat: Either ABC would “take action” against Jimmy Kimmel, or there would be consequences. The network promptly gave in—“Great News,” President Trump wrote at the time—suspending Kimmel’s late-night show only to reinstate it a few days later amid public backlash. Both involve direct threats to ABC after a Kimmel joke, and both reveal how the FCC has been reconfigured to act on Trump’s personal grievances. The groups reportedly control more than 25 percent of ABC affiliates across the country and represent 23 percent of all American households. But whether Disney comes out on top again may not matter to the White House.

Trending:
Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now
NEWS | 01 May 2026
And the decision fits just as well with Kilpatrick’s later spin on that philosophy: Attempts to ban racial discrimination are themselves discriminatory—against white people. In 2022, Louisiana lawmakers passed a redistricting plan that limited Black voters to a single congressional district out of six (“packing” them into a majority district and “cracking” the remaining Black population into other districts to limit their influence). The fact that discriminating against Black voters would give Republicans an advantage today is not exculpatory; it only establishes a motive for discrimination. Drawing a different map that did not disenfranchise Black voters, as a lower court had ordered, would itself be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander,” Alito concluded. Trying to disenfranchise Black voters isn’t racist; preventing Louisiana from disenfranchising Black voters is racist.

This Just In:
The Fight-Club Rule on Gerrymandering
NEWS | 01 May 2026
Their goal is straightforward and universally understood: They want to bolster the GOP’s majority in Congress and retake the lead in a yearlong, nationwide partisan gerrymandering showdown with Democrats. Republicans can’t acknowledge the intent of their gerrymandering proposal, because the state constitution expressly prohibits partisan redistricting. It could lead other GOP-led states to eliminate House seats drawn to boost minority representation in Congress in the months and years ahead. The court did not touch Florida’s state ban on partisan gerrymandering, however. What seemed clear was that if Florida’s ban on partisan gerrymandering remained intact, the informal ban on copping to it was weakening.

Today:
Donald Trump’s Disturbing Welcome for King Charles
NEWS | 01 May 2026
President Trump welcomed the British monarch King Charles III to the White House yesterday and gave a speech that, on its surface, expressed warmth between the two countries. Trump’s speech stamped his imprimatur on an ascendant view of American history and politics—one that is controversial even on the American right, and that walks up to the edge of white nationalism. He has charged that immigrants commit crimes at higher rates than native Americans, attributing this to “bad genes.”Read: Are you a ‘Heritage American’? Trump’s iron-fisted methods—which in just the past day have included pressuring a TV network to fire a comedian for making fun of the president, and charging someone he dislikes with manufactured crimes—violate traditional American values. They do not appear to believe that those values restrain their own side, because, as the representatives of the true American heritage, they are entitled to prevail.

Top Stories:
Photos: A Century of Sidecar Racing
NEWS | 01 May 2026
Keystone Pictures USA / ZUMA Press Wire / ReutersOriginal caption from 1956: “Siegfried Schauzu of West Germany, riding a B.M.W., won the Sidecar T.T. at Douglas, Isle of Man, yesterday, despite the fast that his passenger fell out of the sidecar within sight of the winning post. Schauzu stopped for a split second to pick up his partner, Horst Schneider, at Governor’s Bridge, before racing on to win by 19 seconds.”

World:
Rise of the Blood Populist
NEWS | 01 May 2026
There are three major problems when it comes to understanding political violence in America. What even is political violence? Those who study political violence have found repeatedly that the majority of Americans fully reject political violence. That’s why federal law-enforcement officials sometimes use the term salad-bar extremism to describe 21st-century political violence. Over the years, many experts have warned me that periods of entrenched political violence are difficult to escape.

Current Events:
The King’s Admirer in Chief
NEWS | 01 May 2026
But here was King Charles III, ready to toast the land that his great-grandfather five times over allowed to get away. In America, Trump plans a giant triumphal arch outside Arlington National Cemetery that’s been dubbed the Arc de Trump. Over the past year, Democrats and other Trump opponents have staged “No Kings” rallies throughout the country. On this day, Trump, however tongue in cheek, formally declared himself one. In mid-September, I arrived with President Trump for a two-day festival in the United Kingdom.

News Flash:
Who Is the Real Base of the Democratic Party?
NEWS | 01 May 2026
I don’t know whether we’re ever going to get back to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as it was. Frum: Let me give you another hypothesis: that the way the Republican Party and the Democratic Party function is a little bit like comparing Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Frum: And being the film critic for The New Yorker, that conjures up everything you need to know right there. Simmons: Oh, I think that’s right. Simmons: Yeah, I think that’s right.