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President Trump’s Russia and Ukraine scandals are, in fact, one story, @JeffreyToobin writes.http://nyer.cm/hnTYiR6 

Killer Mike on his continued support of Bernie Sanders: “It’s hard to beat Trump without the antithesis of him. It’s hard to beat Magneto without Professor X. And I think that’s Sanders.”http://nyer.cm/4wJTzYn 

In the winter months, communities close to the North Pole experience a phenomenon known as polar night: a period of uninterrupted darkness. In Utqiagvik, this lasts for approximately two months.http://nyer.cm/tK3RfIL 

Derren Brown “takes an effect from the mentalism repertoire and generates from it an escalating series of climaxes that forces you to rethink everything you’ve just seen.” Rather than diminish the mystery, revealing his methods reasserts and deepens it.http://nyer.cm/azJyNXv 

“Mural” may be over 65, but it still has star power.http://nyer.cm/ex9mDxx 

During the 2017-2018 season, more than 600 million Chinese fans were watching N.B.A. games and other content, and nearly a third of all N.B.A. subscriptions for live-streaming were in Asia. This week, the N.B.A.’s relationship with China took a sharp turn.http://nyer.cm/vJyEOrm 

Isaac Hayes’s 45-minute album “Hot Buttered Soul,” which consists of just four extended psychedelic-orchestral tracks, changed the sound and scale of soul music.http://nyer.cm/SxhB4Z6 

A dispatch from a clinic serving refugee and immigrant families, where a pediatrician examines migrant children waiting for asylum.http://nyer.cm/3pCsk5j 

This week, Benjamin Netanyahu attended a pre-trial hearing that has made both his admirers and his critics apprehensive.http://nyer.cm/W4PIUOa 

The Washington Mystics star Delle Donne is in a strange place: admired and respected by her peers, indisputably dominant in her sport, and largely ignored by the wider world.http://nyer.cm/nqKCpok 

The regal Irish novelist Edna O’Brien’s first four novels were banned in Ireland. What new controversy surrounds her latest novel, “Girl,” which will be published later this month?http://nyer.cm/DUu2NE0 

In “Varda by Agnès,” Agnès Varda commands the screen magnetically—and, with her reminiscences, she casts her aura back through all of her films, as if retroactively appearing in every one of them, @tnyfrontrow writes.http://nyer.cm/lAx9tSW 

Combustion engines have helped create a climate crisis. The quest for oil has led our soldiers into war. And the road has become a setting for violent, systemic racism. Are cars worth it?http://nyer.cm/puwIOlG 

In Part II of the Black Cube Chronicles, @RonanFarrow reports on the spy who reached out to journalists and their sources in an attempt to uncover the specifics of allegations against Harvey Weinstein.http://nyer.cm/cBMFBbl 

Nietzsche—who raged against democracy and egalitarianism, as well as against nationalism and anti-Semitism—continues to inspire thinkers from across the political spectrum.http://nyer.cm/KMJ8KS1 

Reginald Dwayne Betts upsets the narrative of incarceration and redemption in "Felon," his third book of poetry.http://nyer.cm/2Zxwcie 

Allen Leech, a "Downtown Abbey" star, talks Irish history and Brexit.http://nyer.cm/o4UIzM5 

As President Trump orders U.S. troops to withdraw from Syria’s border, revisit Luke Mogelson’s 2017 Letter from Syria: "Kurdish revolutionaries helped the U.S. expel the Islamic State from its capital city. Will we soon abandon them?"http://nyer.cm/Plvryyx 

Stella Penn Pechanac used a number of identities to introduce herself to women with sexual-assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein and to reporters investigating those stories. Who was she really?http://nyer.cm/ZCBsJrQ