The U.S. Media’s Murky Coverage of Putin and Trump
Russian journalists say that American reporting has pandered to hysteria and trafficked in conspiracy theories.
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John Moreland’s Sad National Anthems
The country and folk singer shows that there is something gloriously American about turning pain into business.
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The Alt-Right Branding War
Now that white supremacists own the “alt-right” mantle, a coalition of right-wing opponents are aligning themselves against it.
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How Trump Is Exploiting a Divided Europe
In Poland, the President played on growing economic divisions that threaten to create a “two-tiered” E.U.
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The Third Reich’s Good Cop
Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther solves crimes for Nazi Germany. Why do we like him so much?
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Toscanini’s Greatest Recorded Performances
An annotated playlist, in honor of the conductor’s hundred and fiftieth birthday.
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Dignity and the Fourth
Reading Frederick Douglass’s Independence Day address from 1852 may ease the despair caused by listening to the President.
Betsy DeVos Heads to North Korea to Reverse Its Progress in Math and Science
The Education Secretary plans to replace Pyongyang’s current system of training scientists with a dizzying array of vouchers, sources said.
The Startup to End All Startups
Meet uBox, the hot new startup that’s disrupting the innovators that are innovating disruption by giving you the box you didn’t know you needed.
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America’s Future Is Texas
With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state’s demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation’s bellwether.
The Beginning of Privacy
How a Prohibition-era bootlegger ended up at the center of America’s evolving conception of Fourth Amendment rights.
America’s Haunted Borderlands
After the Inauguration, the photographer Carolyn Drake focussed her lens on the U.S.-Mexico border, a strange and sometimes disorienting place.
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Spray-Painted Hate in the California Desert
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Cape House’s coastal décor and littlenecks on the half shell make it easy to believe you’re in the favorite watering hole of a quiet fishing village.
Holly Hunter’s New York Story
The actress, who plays a fiercely protective mom in both “The Big Sick” and “Strange Weather,” remembers her start.