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Why is the Labour Party such a mess?
Massive global ransomware attack strikes healthcare providers
Trumpcare: a moral disgrace
What is to be done in Venezuela?
New Orleans takes down three Confederate monuments
Bye-Bye, Bill O’Reilly
Justin Trudeau’s terrible environmental policies
Turkey’s leader claims vast new powers
N+1 on the Syria catastrophe
What’s really behind North Korea’s nuclear provocations
Donald Trump’s worst deal
How Trump could build an autocracy
Julian Assange’s endgame
Obama’s speeches
The devastating transformation of work in the US
Meanwhile, three weeks ago in Mosul…
Physician, heal thyself. The Trump win and the nearsightedness of the elites-led Democratic Party
President Obama, white backlash, and renewed black resistance
How Israel privatized the Palestinian occupation
Hillary Clinton’s joyless sprint to the presidency
Obama lightens restrictions on Cuban cigars and rum
Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The sordid second presidential debate
Can the unthinkable happen?
Missouri legislature removes nearly all restrictions on carrying firearms
Syria: stories from the barrel of a cannon
Literature’s obsession with the ends of the earth
Seeing art — by wheelchair
It’s hard work being popular in the age of social media
A personal view of Andrew Wyeth
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on La La Land
Two new books on Orwell
Sartre v. Camus
Reuniting two halves of a long-lost Alexandre Dumas novel
RIP John Berger
Children of Men: Revisiting Alfonso Cuaron’s 2006 dystopian masterpiece
How the medium became the message and McLuhan became a messiah
Art for sale — on your cruise ship
The limits of forgiveness
RIP Shirley Hazzard. An archived interview with the novelist, who died this week at 85.
Leonard Cohen’s final interview
The meaning of Bob Dylan’s Nobel silence
The Holocaust on trial: a new film on the Lipstadt-Irving libel case
Ian McEwan’s Nutshell
Maya Lin’s genius
Howard Stern, America’s best interviewer?
Why Joyce’s Ulysses no longer shocks us
This movie was literally written by an algorithm
Prague’s giant Kafka head
Wittgenstein’s handles
Homeless in Portland
The growing darkness in Syria’s cities, as seen from space
Olathe, Kansas after the shooting
What happens when technology renders jobs obsolete?
Crime and punishment in black America
How Hollywood remembers Steve Bannon
A history of Russian hacking
The high price of having a family member in prison
Facebook’s bet on virtual reality takes shape
Climate change plunges east coast insurers into uncertainty
The possibility of silicon-based life grows
Who are the new jihadis?
Where evangelicals came from
Stephen King on Donald Trump
A retiree solves a famous math problem (and no one notices)
ESPN’s grim future
Big Sur slips back in time
The F-35: the most expensive weapon ever built
Rethinking the Indian (Native-American) Wars
Russia and the West
Shipwrecks and treasure-hunting
Tech bros and the Tenderloin
School choice gutted Detroit’s public schools; the rest of the country is next
Misreporting in Iraq and Syria
Davos Man confronts the world he created
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