Annals of Medicine
A.I. Versus M.D.
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
What happens when diagnosis is automated?
Theresa May’s Empty Brexit Promises
By John Cassidy
The Prime Minister and her fellow Brexiteers don’t have a viable economic vision to offer.
Daily Comment
Donald Trump, Lost in Africa
By Alexis Okeowo
The Trump Administration’s budget proposal includes a call to completely eliminate the African Development Foundation.
Books
Is Fat Killing You, or Is Sugar?
By Jerome Groopman
What we do and don’t know about dietary science.
Culture Desk
Ars Nova’s Brilliant Career
By Sarah Larson
Since 2002, the nonprofit Off Broadway theatre has quietly cultivated unconventional emerging artists working in hybrid forms.
Body and Soul
The Yoga Lesson
By R. Kikuo Johnson
I’ve never felt so present in my own body.
Cultural Comment
When New York Became the Center of the Art World
By Louis Menand
An exhibit tells the story of thirteen crucial years in the downtown art scene.
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John Mayer Is a Wonderland
By Amanda Petrusich
“The Search for Everything” is a tender and smarting breakup record, presumably about the end of Mayer’s relationship with the pop star Katy Perry.
Donald Trump, Lost in Africa
By Alexis Okeowo
The Trump Administration’s budget proposal includes a call to completely eliminate the African Development Foundation.
Maybe the Earth Is Flat If You Are Kyrie Irving
By Thomas Beller
Maybe the N.B.A. player’s odd declaration about the planet was an allegory about what happens when all the world is a stage.
Spotlight
News Desk
The G.O.P Halts the Russia Investigation
By Ryan Lizza
Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has kicked up a cloud of peripheral issues to deflect attention from the scandal.
Culture Desk
“Get Out” and the Death of White Racial Innocence
By Rich Benjamin
Jordan Peele’s movie mocks and unmasks white America’s show of naïveté at entrenched racism.
Letter from Sweden
The Trauma of Facing Deportation
By Rachel Aviv
In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children have fallen unconscious after being informed that their families will be expelled from the country.
News Desk
Pope Francis Proposes a Cure for Populism
By James Carroll
In his address last week to the leaders of the beleaguered European Union, the Pope called for a bold new solidarity.
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Tables for Two
The Two Faces of Augustine
By Becky Cooper
Follow one path, and the new Keith McNally restaurant resembles a Parisian brasserie. Select another, and it is the pinnacle of Wall Street establishments, all slicked hair and steaks.
Shouts & Murmurs
What I Have in Common with Trump
By Ethan Kuperberg
I have never read the second half of “Infinite Jest”; I have never read “The Art of the Deal,” by Donald Trump; and other shared attributes.
Comment
Behind Neil Gorsuch’s Non-Answers
By Jeffrey Toobin
Every sign suggests that he would be at least as conservative a judicial activist as Samuel Alito.
Our Columnists
John Cassidy
Can Trump Learn Bipartisanship from Reagan?
By John Cassidy
The former President’s 1982 meeting with Tip O’Neill could serve as inspiration after the health-care debacle.
Amy Davidson
Scott Pruitt Rejects Climate-Change Reality
By Amy Davidson
Pruitt seemed to be looking forward to tossing aside not only climate models but every manner of silliness that scientists might come up with.
Satire from the Borowitz Report
White House Denies Any Ties to United States
By Andy Borowitz
Sean Spicer says no member of the Administration has ever worked “in any way, shape, or form” for the benefit of the U.S.
Cultural Comment
Beauty and the Bestiality
By Jia Tolentino
Unlike many of its classic precursors, Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” removes most of the story’s sexual subtext.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Trumpcare’s G.O.P. Death Panel
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Decisive opposition to the House health-care bill may come not from Democrats but from the President’s own party.
Richard Brody
Agnès Varda’s Art of Being There
By Richard Brody
For Varda, a crucial modern director, the creation is in the approach, the gesture.
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The Exhibit That Transformed Photography
By Philip Gefter
On the fiftieth anniversary of MOMA’s landmark “New Documents” show, a new book provides the exhibition catalogue that never was.