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The G.O.P. Tax Scam Isn’t Quite A Done Deal

Though the House and Senate bills are broadly similar, they differ in a number of significant details. Drafting final legislation is far from a mere technicality.

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The Slide-Show Epiphanies of the Architectural Historian Vincent Scully

Scully, who died on November 30th, at the age of ninety-seven, taught his undergraduate lecture course in architecture at Yale for sixty-one years.

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What We’re Reading This Week

Chronicling the nomadic lives of American workers; Neil deGrasse Tyson’s swift-moving book about astrophysics; and Christmastime with the Lambert family, of “The Corrections.”

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Make Your Own G.O.P. Tax Bill

For best results, please assemble during the hours of 12 to 4 A.M.

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It Was Obama’s Year on Twitter

Donald Trump appeared to dominate Twitter, but none of the year’s ten most-retweeted tweets was written by the current President.

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Michael Flynn’s Guilty Plea Sends Trump’s Lawyers Scrambling

The President insists that the investigations into Russian meddling amount to nothing more than fake news. But the truth is now emerging.

My Dad, the Car

He and I both dislike hills. We both wear expandable waistbands. We both provide running commentary on our gas levels.

Nicolás Maduro’s Accelerating Revolution

Venezuela’s President has outmaneuvered his opponents. Can he survive an economy in free fall?

The Trauma of Being a Teen in Solitary Confinement

How Jermaine Gotham got caught up in a vicious cycle of violence, isolation, and untreated mental illness.

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Michael Flynn’s Guilty Plea

President Trump responds to the former national-security adviser’s admission that he lied to the F.B.I. about conversations with the Russian ambassador.

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New Haven’s Dashed American Dream

A photographer spent his career documenting the lives of runaways, refugees, and the residents of welfare hotels. Then, forty years later, he returned home.

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In This Week’s Issue

Tokyo Record Bar’s Riff on the Speakeasy

Although it’s inspired by the vinyl bars of Japan, this spot chooses accessibility over authenticity.

A Film About Loie Fuller’s Art Nouveau Dances

In “The Dancer,” Fuller’s pieces are reconstructed by a scholar and performed by the French actress Soko.

Mattress-Disruption Spreads to the Nightstand

Casper launches Woolly, a magazine that embraces the hunger for hygge and covers the bedtime beat.

Our Columnists

The Passage of the Senate Republican Tax Bill Was a Travesty

Approved in the dead of night, the biggest change in U.S. tax law in decades included last-minute revisions that skewed the bill even more toward the rich.

What Michael Flynn’s Plea Means to Mueller—and to Trump

That the special counsel would treat Flynn as someone worth flipping, presumably in pursuit of a bigger case, is, to say the least, suggestive.

Nazis Feeling Neglected After Republicans’ Embrace of Child Molesters

“President Trump needs to remember who put him in the White House,” one man said. “Nazis have feelings, too.”

The Trumpishness of Ivana

When Ivana Trump insults the President in her new memoir, it’s in the passive manner of a woman acknowledging an enemy at a luncheon.

Meghan Markle, the Hallmark Star Set to Marry a Prince

I feel that I have known Markle since 2014, when I saw her in “When Sparks Fly,” one of the Hallmark Channel’s weirdest movies.

“The Room” Is a Better Movie Than “The Disaster Artist”

Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic, celebrated for its unmatched badness, is deeper and darker than James Franco’s calculated impersonation.

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Tangier Island, on the Front Lines of Climate Change

The island in the Chesapeake Bay is washing out to sea, and its residents may be among the first American refugees of climate change. But that’s not how they see the loss of their land.

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