Roy Cohn Did It First
The day after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the conservative political operative Roger Stone was among the lucky few to get through to him on the telephone. The president-elect…
A Society of Cheats
Recently, I have taken to telling friends that whenever I’m on campus, I feel like I’m trapped in the middle of a crime spree. I’m not talking about an epidemic…
What to Read to Wake Up Your Brain
Summer is the ideal season for fun, frothy reads. On languorous weekends or hard-earned vacations, many people skew their literary diet toward lighter fare—fast-paced thrillers, steamy rom-coms—rather than, say, an…
Red Death
In the green rooms of the Abandonarium –– Lucie Brock-Broido Red liquid Pumped through the arm Is it poison…
The Kennedy Center Has a Problem That Courts Can’t Fix
To put the legal fight over the Kennedy Center in operatic terms, it has become more than a little Wagnerian. After another hearing this week about another attempt to add…
Pick Up Where You Left Off
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The Terrible Movie That Chinese Audiences Can’t Stop Watching
Source: YouTube Summary One of the only compliments I can offer the new Chinese animated film Niu Lai is that it certainly qualifies as a film. There is sound. The…
A New Way of Seeing Alien Worlds
Tomorrow morning, if all goes to plan, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, its latest and greatest orbital observatory, will lift off from its launchpad and add a little rocket-booster…
How Did Trump’s Trade Fight With Canada Go So Sideways?
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Trump’s Bad Bet on Beef
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