Danielle Sassoon’s American Bravery

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.

What’s really going on when you can’t power down?

Scorned by critics on its release, in 1999, Alan Rudolph’s Kurt Vonnegut adaptation now emerges as an inspired comic extravaganza, whose very originality was its undoing.

The staff writer and the cartoonist share their picks from the archive—an essay by Joan Didion, and a caveman cartoon by George Booth—to celebrate The New Yorker’s centennial.

Anthony Romero, the head of the A.C.L.U., says that the United States is on the brink of a constitutional crisis. “We’re at the Rubicon. Whether we’ve crossed it remains to be seen.”

A conservative prosecutor in New York makes the first bold move against Donald Trump’s rampaging Presidency.

On his third studio album, “Horror,” the genre-spanning musician deconstructs old fears and finds ways to survive new ones.

“Give it ten minutes before you hit her with the ick.”

It’s always “hearts, Cupid, love” and never “analyzing history and the egregious mistakes upon which this Union was built.”

If the Democratic Party has a problem drawing young men who believe that the excesses of wokeness have left them behind, could there be a more appealing figure than the guy they’ve been watching argue about sports for the past decade?

Also: Rachel Syme on shopping like it’s 1925, and a New Yorker anniversary quiz.

Like kitchen backsplashes and bathroom floors, often: five letters.