CULTURE
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The Long Shadow of the Kennedys
Given the daily degradation of our democracy—not merely its practice but its symbols and forms, which matter, too—it seems merely…
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Trump’s Vivisection of the Department of Education
Earlier this month, the Trump Administration announced that it was laying off thirteen hundred employees of the U.S. Department of…
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The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts
We are witnessing a constitutional system on the brink. The crisis started on Saturday, when James E. Boasberg, the chief…
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Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s Attack on U.S.A.I.D.: Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
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“Mayhem,” Reviewed: Lady Gaga’s Return to Form
In the spring of 2011, Lady Gaga, then twenty-five years old and on the cusp of releasing her second full-length…
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The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants to Stop Arresting People for Domestic Violence
The interaction transformed Goodmark’s outlook. She began to notice a chasm between what her clients needed—a stable income, a place…
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Canada, the Northern Outpost of Sanity
When I was a boy, the company that my father worked for transferred him from Los Angeles to Toronto, so…
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Gene Hackman’s Dangerous Smile | The New Yorker
The circumstances surrounding the death of the actor Gene Hackman, at the age of ninety-five, have yet to be explained.…
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Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television
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The Hollow Core of Elon Musk’s Productivity Dogma
On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk posted on X that “all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand…
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