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The Numbing Sameness of War Footage
The proliferation of images via cell phones may have taken away the war photographer’s ability to create a single, arresting, and iconic image, but their accumulation will haunt us.
News Desk
A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare
The Pentagon’s Replicator initiative envisions swarms of low-cost autonomous machines that could remake the American arsenal.
Dispatch
The Law Professor Flying Surveillance Drones in Ukraine
When the first rockets struck outside Vasyl Bilous’s apartment building, in Kharkiv, he was already at the front.
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Russia Bombards Kyiv with a Crude New Weapon
Kamikaze drones struck the Ukrainian capital just after sunrise.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Regina Spektor on Her New Album, “Home, Before and After”
The singer, out with her first album in six years, talks with the music critic Amanda Petrusich. Plus, the staff writer Ian Frazier on the birth of a new sport: high-speed drone racing.
Annals of War
The Turkish Drone That Changed the Nature of Warfare
The Bayraktar TB2 has brought precision air-strike capabilities to Ukraine and other countries. It’s also a diplomatic tool, enabling Turkey’s rise.
Dispatch
A Ukrainian Judge Joins the Nation’s Ferocious Resistance
How a forty-year-old father of three joined other civilians to help thwart the Russian Army’s attempt to seize Kyiv.
Books
How Much of Your Stuff Belongs to Big Tech?
In the digital era, the old rule book on ownership doesn’t work anymore. But beware of what’s replacing it.
A Reporter at Large
Jonathan Ledgard Believes Imagination Could Save the World
His strategies for a more equitable, sustainable future range from practical and humanitarian to fanciful and abstract.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Effects of China’s One-Child Policy, and a Final Interview with Toni Morrison
A documentarian examines one of the biggest social experiments in history, and Hilton Als talks with the celebrated writer.
Comment
What Will Follow Trump’s Cancelled Strike on Iran?
The worst option is the one that both countries say they don’t want: a full-on war.
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, October 3rd
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Adrenaline Rush of Racing Drones, and Politics Goes Extreme
Ian Frazier, holding on for dear life, looks at the birth of a new sport: high-speed drone racing. And a political scientist analyzes the midterm elections.
A Reporter at Large
The Trippy, High-Speed World of Drone Racing
There is no slacker component to the new generation of talented young pilots who like to fool around with quadcopters.
Annals of Technology
A Field Farmed Only by Drones
According to the engineers behind Hands Free Hectare, the future of agriculture belongs to self-driving tractors.
Shouts & Murmurs
The Story of My Nine Lives
Shouts & Murmurs
Classic Films, as Understood by Drones
The Current Cinema
Distant Emotions
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