I am sitting in a bland conference room in Midtown Manhattan with twenty-nine so-called business professionals, and one of our instructors, Sharon, has just told us to imagine a huge rectangular brass ...

In the West Bank, where foreign media can still operate, daily horrors are both more commonplace and less frequent than in ...

“This time is different.” With Donald Trump’s second term off to a roaring, snorting start—a furious dust cloud of ICE raids and ICE-raid photo ops, tariffs announced and then paused, a funding freeze ...

Liberal internationalism died in the ruins of Gaza and Beirut. Donald Trump’s return to office has only put a tin plate on the coffin. The doctrine lost all legitimacy through its dependence on ...

Five months after Donald Trump moved into the White House in 2017, a reporter asked Vladimir Putin about the allegations that Russia had interfered in U.S. elections. After all, Trump had proclaimed ...

I see more shredding trucks in New York than I used to. They park around the city for “community shredding” events, where neighbors, friends, and loved ones convene to watch their old bank statements ...

From Pause the Document, which will be published this month by Nightboat Books.

From The Dream Hotel, which will be published this month by Pantheon. Morning light silvers the glass-brick windows of the Safe-X library. A sign taped to the wall above the return shelf says quiet.

From “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer”: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column, edited by Mary Beth Norton, which will be published next month by Princeton ...

Liz Pelly’s article on Spotify’s collusion with the stock-music industry [“The Ghosts in the Machine,” Report, January] is fascinating and well researched, but it could have used more historical ...

Every night without fail I try to tear the swastika off the Nazi flag. I’m proud of myself and happy when I do it, but the next day it’s always sewn firmly on again. a math teacher It was forbidden ...

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