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Annals of Parenthood

Parenting by the Numbers

The economist Emily Oster challenges the conventional wisdom on child rearing.

Annals of Appearances

The Startling Image of a Victim of the Virginia Beach Shooting

For all the images that have been broadcast from mass shootings, it is unusual to actually see the carnage up close.

Daily Comment

The Netanyahu–Lieberman Saga Reaches a Climax

In refusing to join the Prime Minister’s coalition, prompting yet another election, the hawkish former defense minister may be getting back at his onetime mentor Netanyahu.

Daily Comment

Why Mitch McConnell Outmaneuvers Democrats on the Supreme Court

The Senate Majority Leader and his party would push through a Republican nominee while blocking a Democratic choice for one main reason: because they can.

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Sporting Scene

How the French Turned a Tennis Court Into a Garden

Court Simonne-Mathieu, where some of the French Open matches are taking place, shows that, at their best, both gardens and sport, like grand mountain chains and spectacular sunsets, can approach the sublime.

Letter from Trump’s Washington

Trump and Bibi’s Bad Week

They’re both at war with those who would investigate them. But are they winning or losing?

Onward and Upward in the Garden

The Envies of Eating in Springtime

Were I to buy all the market spinach and peas I could eat, moths would fly out of my purse as in the cartoons and comics of my youth.

News Desk

The N.R.A.’s Questionable Charitable Giving

Between 2013 and 2017, the gun-rights group made undisclosed payments to a nonprofit group whose board of directors includes Susan LaPierre, the wife of the N.R.A.’s executive vice-president.

Fiction

Short Story: “Canvas”

“Stories she thought had left her memory without a trace would come back to strike her with their strangeness.”

The Latest

Trump Says He Would Be a Much Better Princess Than Meghan Markle

Calling the Duchess of Sussex “a nasty woman,” the President said, “If I were a princess, I would not be nasty. People would say, ‘Donald Trump is the nicest princess.’ ”

June 1, 2019

Sorry I’m Late

Literally crossing the street now. I had to stop for a snack. I was craving an apple, so I went to an orchard in Vermont. I’ll tell you all about it when I get there, which is going to be very soon.

June 1, 2019

Ava DuVernay on the Central Park Five, and #MeToo on TV

The director discusses her new miniseries, about five youths convicted and exonerated of an infamous crime; and The New Yorker’s television critic, Emily Nussbaum, explains a “deluge” of #MeToo plots on television.

May 31, 2019

“Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo

The films exhibit a tragic logic that dovetails with the real-life revelations of #MeToo, but neither is constructed with anything resembling the courageousness that women in the movement have displayed.

May 31, 2019

Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 31st

“There was a concern that it was reminding the President of John McCain.”

May 31, 2019
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Key Moments From Mueller’s Statement on the Russia Investigation

On Wednesday, the special counsel Robert Mueller delivered his first public statement about President Donald Trump and the Russia investigation.

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Photo Booth

Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico

In the course of her half-century-long career, Iturbide has dedicated herself to documenting the daily lives, the mores, and the remarkable diversity of Mexican people, always with an eye for the dignity of her subjects.

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From This Week’s Issue
Tables for Two

Proletarian Szechuan Fare Gets the Palace Treatment

Classic dishes get poetic reinventions and opulent plating, with the same dedication to capsaicin as the originals.

On Television

TV’s Reckoning with #MeToo

Many creators are visibly struggling to adjust to the changing landscape, rejecting the “very special episode” path and seeking something more honest and original.

Base Notes

Scents and Sensibility

Ron Winnegrad, the perfumer behind Love’s Baby Soft, coaches his synesthesia students on how to see the colors summoned by pencil shavings, “whale poop,” and the dried glands of the beaver.

Shouts & Murmurs

Creative

As I once told Harold Pinter, creativity is like a third arm, and my job is to help you free it. He ran off screaming, and that became his first play.

Our Columnists

A New European Parliament Won’t Fix the E.U.’s Economy

Because the chamber is more fragmented, it may have difficulty exercising its power to allocate the E.U.’s budget, conduct oversight, and make appointments.

Boris Johnson for Prime Minister, and Other Potential Brexit Messes

The possibility that Johnson may succeed Theresa May as Prime Minister is one of the measures of the current unseriousness of British politics.

Nancy Pelosi’s Tactics Affirm the Trumpian Style of Politics

In a world where trolling is politics, Pelosi is winning, but her tactics, apparently designed to expose Trump’s unfitness, are vulgar, cruel, and value-free.

Trump, Bolton, and the Alleged March to Fight Iran

The President has blown up the old way of American foreign-policymaking, which makes the risk of a miscalculation higher than ever.

Mueller Stirs Controversy by Urging Americans to Read

“I’ve never read any of my books, and I certainly don’t intend to read his,” President Trump said.

Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo

“Ma” and “The Perfection” exhibit a tragic logic that dovetails with the real-life revelations of #MeToo, but neither replicates the courageousness that women in the movement have displayed.

Podcasts

Ava DuVernay on the Central Park Five, and #MeToo on TV

The director discusses her new miniseries, about five youths convicted and exonerated of an infamous crime; and The New Yorker’s television critic, Emily Nussbaum, explains a “deluge” of #MeToo plots on television.

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