How Not to Solve the Refugee Crisis
A case of mistaken identity put the wrong man in jail. Now it highlights the failure of prosecutions to tackle a humanitarian disaster.
- John Cassidy
John McCain’s Tragic Contradictions
In voting to keep the Obamacare repeal alive, the Arizona senator participated in the sort of cynical politics that he then inveighed against on the Senate floor.
- Daily Comment
Is Trump Trying to Drive Sessions Out?
The President’s conflict with his Attorney General suggests that he does not have a zero-tolerance policy for ethical violations; rather, he has a zero-tolerance policy for ethics.
- Amy Davidson Sorkin
Trump Tramples on Boy Scout Values
The President took another opportunity to show himself to be demagogic, non-inclusive, dishonest, and simply crude.
- Ryan Lizza
Jared Kushner’s Professed Cluelessness About Russia
He claimed he was simply a naïve staffer exchanging benign pleasantries. But he granted a hostile foreign power access to the Trump campaign.
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A New Kind of Adultery Novel
Sally Rooney’s début, “Conversations with Friends,” is a bracing study of ideas. But it’s even smarter about people.
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Did a Cancelled Memorial to Norway’s Utøya Massacre Go Too Far?
The controversial plans for “Memory Wound,” by the Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg, differed in instructive ways from other memorials that confront feelings of irremediable loss.
Touring Jim Henson’s Restless Creative Spirit, at the Museum of the Moving Image
A permanent exhibition, newly opened in Queens, provides a dizzying portrait of the imagination behind the Muppets.
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John McCain and the Politics of Decency
The Arizona senator has been capable of hawkish overreach, and political missteps, but he has also shown generosity and courage. All sides were on display on Tuesday.
Touring Jim Henson’s Restless Creative Spirit
A permanent exhibition, newly opened at the Museum of the Moving Image, provides a dizzying portrait of the imagination behind the Muppets.
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A Lost Cat’s Reincarnation
When Masahisa Fukase’s kitten disappeared, and a stranger returned the wrong animal, he took the stray in anyway and made it the subject of a photo series.
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Not So Fast, Canada!
Canada’s dangerously overblown reputation for fair play can be traced back to Flanders, 1914, after the Second Battle of Chumps.