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See today's Daily Cartoon.

Funny drawings from this week's magazine.

"What will I give you now / for your thoughts."

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Are the Enhanced Games an existential threat to fairness or a cure for death?

The pop star launched her new album, "Confessions II," at a party in London, complete with watery drinks and nostalgic hits. Her co-host for the evening? Grindr.

New books, articles, and shows lament a crisis of connection among American men. But the picture of friendship that emerges can feel romanticized and brittle.

Readers respond to Melanie Thernstrom's piece about a concierge women's-health doctor, Burkhard Bilger's piece about the lone-star tick, and Adeline Goss's piece about the potential connections between frontotemporal dementia and criminality.

"You argued whether one had to lie to dream, / the tensions between charm & narcissism, / & the existence of Time with everyone younger than you."

On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.