CULTURE

What Is Benjamin Netanyahu Really After?

On Friday, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government approved a plan for Israel to take control of Gaza City, where about a million…

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Donald Trump, Master Builder of Castles in the Air

That Donald Trump would end up shouting from the rooftops of Washington is not, in and of itself, all that…

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Jamaica Kincaid on “Putting Myself Together”

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Should Police Officers Be More Like U.F.C. Fighters?

Deep inside a municipal building in the Seattle suburbs, Rener Gracie is directing police-academy recruits in an elaborate role-playing scenario.…

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Notes on Bed Rest | The New Yorker

Early in my first pregnancy, about three years ago, I did a thing that a lot of pregnant women do.…

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Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate

The summer of 2025 has been a season of climate-driven catastrophes: wildfires in Turkey, flooding in China and the U.S.,…

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Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?

Hurwitz, however, is undaunted by such matters. For one thing, he is not troubled by the notion that children will…

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Beauford Delaney’s Light and Faith

Delaney’s style or, more accurately, styles, developed in the course of a long apprenticeship that can read like a novelization…

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