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Will Paramount Cancel Jon Stewart?
The “Daily Show” host talks with David Remnick about his contract with Paramount Skydance, the government’s attack on political satire, and how our institutions got so weak.
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Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
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The Invention of the Police
Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
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On social media, Donald Trump riffs, cusses, dodges, weaves, raises money, and spreads lies. “He is the world’s most outspoken troll, and its most dangerous,” Jill Lepore writes. www.newyorker.com/magazin…
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Eastern European dissidents became experts in authoritarian takeovers, and authoritarians, of all kinds. What lessons can Americans learn from them?
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How to Endure Authoritarianism
A visit to a poet’s home in Kraków recalls the lessons of East Europe’s dissidents.
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Outside of the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, one can find some protesters in inflatable costumes—frogs, a unicorn, a butterfly picking up a cigarette off the asphalt. The chaos Donald Trump keeps pointing to is harder to find.
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Portland Prepares for Invasion
The Trump Administration, looking for another TV-ready fight in Oregon, is ready to sic the National Guard on the city’s inflatable-costumed protesters.
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“We rescued one another. . . . He was the artist and I the storyteller.” In a new essay, Patti Smith reflects on her early days in New York and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Essay by Patti Smith: Art Rats in New York City
Finding my own words.
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“We’re in a bad situation, but it’s not just the shittiness of Trump. It’s the passivity of the Democratic Party to stick with a status quo that most people felt was not working.” Jon Stewart talks with David Remnick.
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Will Paramount Cancel Jon Stewart?
The “Daily Show” host talks with David Remnick about his contract with Paramount Skydance, the government’s attack on political satire, and how our institutions got so weak.
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Eric Rudolph was responsible for four bombings, which caused multiple deaths and scores of injuries. His story offers lessons about the persistence of violent extremism, and how to combat it. www.newyorker.com/news/es…
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Chicago’s image has been on the city’s mind recently, as Donald Trump acts on his threat to occupy it.
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Chicago, ICE, and the Lie of the American Pastoral
The city has often been spoken about as a war zone in need of saving from itself. But at home, as abroad, America’s enemies are so often of American invention.
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Mental imagery is associated with a bewildering variety of human traits and capacities: a propensity to hold grudges; a vulnerability to trauma; emotional awareness; ways of making art; memory of one’s life. What happens if you can’t see it?
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Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.
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Graham Platner, the working-class U.S. Senate candidate from Maine, is someone who might inspire the aunt who sends you Trump-as-modern-Hitler memes and also the cousin who listens to “Chapo Trap House,” Jay Caspian Kang writes.
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What Explains Graham Platner’s Popularity?
The U.S. Senate candidate from Maine seems like the embodiment of the dirtbag left. But there’s another way to understand his appeal.
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On social media, Donald Trump riffs, cusses, dodges, weaves, raises money, and spreads lies. “He is the world’s most outspoken troll, and its most dangerous,” Jill Lepore writes. www.newyorker.com/magazin…
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In the past few decades, monsters have gone from menaces to misfits. Why do we feel the need to humanize them?
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How Monsters Went from Menacing to Misunderstood
For most of human history, monsters were repugnant aberrations, breaches of the natural and moral order. What’s behind our relentless urge to humanize them?
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One report estimates that, in areas near data centers, wholesale electricity costs have risen by more than 200 per cent in the past five years. Rates will probably continue to increase to meet demand.
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Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid
A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?
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What’s the worst thing that has happened since Donald Trump’s return to the White House? When sbg1.bsky.social asked for answers, she got a range of responses—from Trump’s politicization of the military to the unleashing of a new MAGA culture celebrating cruelty.
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The Trump Outrages That Matter Most
Razing the East Wing? Breaking Congress? An unscientific survey of the President's most disruptive, significant, and truly surprising moves.
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The U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner seems to be the figure that has finally emerged out of the populist energy that Bernie Sanders unleashed on the country. But the interest in him may come from elsewhere. www.newyorker.com/news/fa…
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On Halloween, revisit an unsettling domestic tale from Stephen King: newyorkermag.visitlink.me…
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Under the Trump Administration, the D.O.E.’s Office for Civil Rights has investigated universities for allegedly discriminating against white students and targeted transgender and nonbinary students.
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When the Government Stops Defending Civil Rights
The Department of Education’s abandonment of traditional civil-rights litigation has effectively transported parents back in time, to the era before the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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In the past few decades, monsters have gone from menaces to misfits. Why do we feel the need to humanize them? newyorkermag.visitlink.me…
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“It’s kind of a form of meditation. I get extremely focussed. I think it’s about whatever the truth is behind the line that one is saying.” In a new Profile, Jennifer Lawrence discusses acting, fame, and her new movie, ”Die My Love.”
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Jennifer Lawrence Goes Dark
She has been cast in maternal roles since her teens. Now, playing a mother for the first time since becoming one, she has chosen the part of a woman pushed past the edge of sanity.
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The Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph may not be a household name these days, but he is talked about reverently by extremists on online forums, where the phrase “do a Rudolph” is used as a shorthand for terrorist attacks.
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Defeating the Far-Right “Blob Man”
The story of Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympics bomber, offers lessons about the persistence of violent extremism, and how to combat it.
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Razing the East Wing? Breaking Congress? An unscientific survey of the President's most disruptive, significant, and truly surprising moves. www.newyorker.com/news/le…
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