The Fight for a Billionaire Tax
Plus: New York may finally ban its horse-drawn carriages.
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The cover of the October 12, 2026, issue of The New Yorker, which features a muscular man jogging in Central Park with his tiny dog.

Peter de Sève’s “Lapdog”

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Reporting & Essays

Annals of Money

 

The Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax

 

Most Democratic voters say that they favor a wealth tax, but a California ballot initiative has plenty of liberal opponents.

 

By Nicholas Lemann

Our Local Correspondents

 

Year of the Horse

 

After a young tourist was killed in a Central Park carriage accident this summer, the City Council is considering whether to ban horse-drawn carriages forever.

 

By Michael Schulman

The Political Scene

 

Defining the Post-Trump Right

 

For decades, the Heritage Foundation was a conservative powerhouse. Can it stay relevant in the influencer age?

 

By Emma Green

Personal History

 

A Woman with a Past

 

My cousin Laura had a diva’s charisma and a siren’s voice. She also had a mysterious past.

 

By Judith Thurman

The Critics


The Talk of the Town

Clashing by Night

How to Fight Your Landlord, the Heel

In Williamsburg, wrestlers dressed like Zohran Mamdani and a cockroach take turns in the ring. Their opponent? The big, bad Slumlord.


By Dan Greene

The Boards

Ernie Bushmiller’s Sunday Morning, Live

In 1976, the artist behind the “Nancy” comic was slighted on “S.N.L.” A new Off Off Broadway show tells the tale of the day after.


By Emma Allen

In the Clubs

Ellen Allien’s Hill of Sound

On a trip to the Cooper Hewitt museum, the techno d.j. reflects on her latest album, “New Life,” and on how Michael Jackson and ABBA haunted her Berlin childhood.


By Nick Paumgarten

Comment

ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity

Arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools.


By Jonathan Blitzer

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Cartoon by Will McPhail

“Just let it happen. We can’t interfere with nature.”

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