If there's one thing I trust about Donald Trump, it's that he's currently the President. He's made us laugh until we cried, and then continued to cry in perpetuity. But, as they say, comedy equals tragedy plus time, so one day everything might be hilarious, and also underwater. Our cartoonists have been working hard to transform the daily scandals and horrors into humor, and they've been doing a great job. See some of their work above—I'm sure there's more to come.
Colin Stokes is a former member of The New Yorker’s editorial staff.
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
Shouts & Murmurs
Women’s Difficulties That Melania Trump Feels Very, Very Strongly About
By Blythe Roberson
Shouts & Murmurs
What I Have in Common with Trump
I have never read the second half of “Infinite Jest”; I have never read “The Art of the Deal,” by Donald Trump; and other shared attributes.
By Ethan Kuperberg
Dept. of Medicine
How to Die in Good Health
The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Peter Attia argues that it doesn’t have to be this way.
By Dhruv Khullar
Infinite Scroll
The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher
Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.
By Kyle Chayka