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What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?

My life divides, evenly enough, into three political eras. I was born in 1980, a year after Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street with...

Signs You Should Give Up on a Book

You can’t stop thinking about the characters and how you’d like to rewrite them as characters from books you’ve actually enjoyed reading.You find...

The Escher Quartet and Igor Levit Test Musical Limits

On March 28, 1949, at Times Hall, in midtown Manhattan, an unexpectedly large crowd materialized to hear the Juilliard Quartet play the second...

The Face of Donald Trump’s Deceptively Savvy Media Strategy

By some accounts, Steven Cheung, Donald Trump’s principal spokesman, who once said that Trump critics’ “entire existence will be crushed when President Trump...

Mohammed Naseehu Ali Reads “Allah Have Mercy”

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter.Mohammed Naseehu Ali...

The Political Books That Help Us Make Sense of 2024

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter.As the Presidential...

The Moral Plea Behind Kate Middleton’s Cancer Disclosure

There is no good way to break bad news, but some ways are more testing than others. Some people, whether from cowardice or...

Trump’s Authoritarian Pronouncements Recall a Dark History

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What It Takes to Give Palestinians a Voice

On the eve of Ramadan, a holy month when observant Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, Khalil Shikaki was wrapping up an unprecedented...

The Form-Blurring Fury of “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World”

One of the first things you see in “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World,” a furious, brilliantly shape-shifting...

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