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Annals of Design

The Paint Company Creating a New Kind of Decorating Anxiety

It used to be chic to have white walls. Now stylish homeowners are paying consultants to find the perfect color.

The Current

What America Will See in Beto O’Rourke

In his announcement video, O’Rourke appears to assimilate the messages of several other Democrats who have declared themselves candidates or considered running, making himself out to be a kind of ur-candidate.

Cultural Comment

College Admissions and the Banality of Scamming

Stories about grifters allow us to vicariously live out our worst urges, but they also present us with open-and-shut arcs that show crime doesn’t pay—in a world that, more often than not, suggests that it does.

Our Columnists

Unpopular Speech and the Need to Defend the Reviled in the #MeToo Era

What happens today if one agrees to represent an accused #MeToo villain or speaks out in defense of his due-process rights?

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The Current

Can Tucker Carlson Be Shamed?

Fox News has stood by its host amid a series of scandals. Recently, though, Carlson’s show has started to lose advertisers.

Culture Desk

The Rise of Coffee-Connoisseur Culture

In the new wave of coffee fanaticism, attention to tasting notes and pairings rivals that of the world of wine.

Shouts & Murmurs

Your Guide to the Cool New Airport Terminal

Help yourself to our vast selection of Smartwater, Fiji water, Dasani water—you name it, they’re all here, and they’re all $4.90. 

Sporting Scene

The Glorious Range of Minnesota Hockey Hair

For nearly a decade, one man has chronicled one of the most endearing rituals in American sports, elevating the hockey haircut to viral prominence.

Daily Comment

Flowcharts for the Brexit Endgame

Brexit is scheduled to take place on March 29th—but the United Kingdom isn’t ready. Here are the possible paths forward.

Our Columnists

Britain’s Humiliation Over Brexit Continues

Two years and nine months after the referendum, there is still no end to the gridlock and chaos it has induced.

The Latest

Is America Becoming Trump’s Banana Republic?

Although he acts like an all-powerful strongman, Trump could make himself the first President in decades to leave the office with less power than it had when he entered.

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“A Real Director Should Be Absolute”: Lois Weber’s Prescient Thoughts on Filmmaking a Century Ago

The filmmaker, whose remarks are captured in “Lois Weber: Interviews,” was a fanatical realist, a fantasist, a master technician, and one of the most original directors of the silent-film era.

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Food Mission Statements

Canned tuna: providing workers in open-plan offices with a convenient, can-based way to alienate their colleagues.

What to Do in New York City This Weekend

Our critics pick the best music, art, theatre, restaurants, and more.

3:32 P.M.

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 14th

“Oh, look! Crocuses, and another Democrat entering the race.”

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Video

A Damn Fine Cup of Coffee

From a twenty-nine-dollar cup of coffee to competitions for roasting beans and tasting notes of flavor, specialty-coffee culture is attracting coffee lovers and hard-core connoisseurs.

Daily Cartoon

“Oh, look! Crocuses, and another Democrat entering the race.”

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A Counterculture Portraitist’s Chronicle of New York’s Youth

Ethan James Green’s subjects—musicians and designers and all manner of “creatives”—are emissaries from a generation that has bushwhacked new expanses of gender expression.

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Tables for Two

A Pop-Up Goes Permanent at Oxalis

With a tasting menu that’s a fine-dining bargain, the chef Nico Russell pursues perfection—very cautiously.

The Current Cinema

Captain Marvel Saves a Movie

The action sequences are derivative and the backstory confounding, but Brie Larson, as the movie’s titular heroine, executes her duties with resourcefulness and wit.

Postscript

King Karl Is Dead, and Fashion Is Free

For sixty-five years, at Fendi and Chanel, Lagerfeld churned out collections—but never changed the way we dress. He revered beauty too much to despoil it by radical experiment.

Fiction

“Color and Light”

“At what point did his relations with Pauline begin to violate the ordinary rules of social contact? It started normally enough. Or did it?”

Our Columnists

Trump’s New Budget Exposes His Medicare Lies

The President’s latest wish list runs directly counter to his campaign promise to safeguard Medicare and other programs at all costs.

What Pelosi Meant When She Said, of Impeaching Trump, “He’s Just Not Worth It”

The House Speaker effectively diminishes him by suggesting he is not so historically powerful that only impeachment can stop him.

When a Dissident Becomes a Collaborator

Maria Baronova was a brash anti-government activist in Russia. Why did she join the Kremlin’s propaganda network?

The “Enemies of the People” Have a Few Questions

The array of subjects and controversies about which we lack basic information shows just how much the public is losing because the White House has shut down legitimate inquiries.

Trump’s Budget Contains Twenty Million Dollars for Bail

A footnote listed family members who would be eligible to use the funds, including his daughter Ivanka but not his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

The Faux-Progressive Politics of “Captain Marvel”

The film is like a political commercial—it packs a worthy message, but it hardly counts as an aesthetic experience.

Podcasts

American Exiles in East Africa, and the Special Relationship Between Fox News and the White House

Two married Black Panthers fled the U.S. in 1970 and made a new life in exile. Also, Jane Mayer on Fox News’ influence over the Trump Administration.

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