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Can Biden’s Center Hold?
After a career built on incremental progress, Joe Biden is promising a Presidency of transformational change. The election will test whether his campaign can bring together a divided Party and a beleaguered country.
Did Pangolin Trafficking Cause the Coronavirus Pandemic?
The elusive animals’ possible involvement in the origins of COVID-19 gives them a weird ambivalence: threatened and, perhaps, dangerous.
What Was Missing from the Postmaster General’s Senate Testimony
Louis DeJoy offered few specifics to assuage fears that the U.S. Postal Service may fail American democracy at this hour of crisis.
Did the Democratic Convention Go Too Smoothly?
An in-person event might have exposed conflicts in the Party, but it also might have offered a chance to address them.
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David Wright Faladé on Complicated Backstories
The author discusses “The Sand Banks, 1861,” his story from this week’s issue of the magazine.
As the World Turns
Paintings of seven scientists at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, as the research facilities slowly reopen.
Confessions of a Trump Troll
“I like chaos. I thrive in it”: a Georgia lawyer with too much time on his hands and ties to the G.O.P. describes how he used twenty fake Twitter accounts to disseminate political disinformation.
What Happens if Trump Fights the Election Results?
Stealing a Presidential election in America is difficult, but it has been done before.
When June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller Tried to Redesign Harlem
The “Skyrise for Harlem” project speaks with resonant clarity in this summer of uprisings.
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The Self-Guided, Outdoor Theatre of “Cairns”
The downtown arts center HERE offers a novel approach to pandemic theatre, in which participants download audio tracks and traverse the grounds of Green-Wood Cemetery.
Returning to Storm King
Few installations at the Hudson Valley sculpture park are new, but in this pandemic summer the park’s breeze, changing light, and theatre of clouds are novelty enough.
When the Ice-Cream Man Goes Rogue
A Brooklyn block was a peaceful pandemic oasis . . . until Mister Softee showed up and crashed through wooden police barricades. But wait! Could it have been his evil twin, Mister Smashee?
“The Sand Banks, 1861”
“We were children yet, but not children for long. Such was the life of a slave.”
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A Splendid Summer Lunch, Mediterranean Style
With his twin sons on hand, Bill Buford explains the steps to a successful salad Niçoise.
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Will Ahmaud Arbery Get Justice?
We try to explain why prosecutors let a young man’s killers walk free. Plus, a conversation with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross about their score for “Watchmen.”
