Trump Cracks the Case! Trump Cracks the Case!
President Private Eye solves the mystery of a murdered journalist… by taking the Saudis at their word.
Oct 23, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow
How Furious Women Shaped Our History: A Q&A With Rebecca Traister How Furious Women Shaped Our History: A Q&A With Rebecca Traister
The author and New York magazine writer on anger as a catalyst for change.
Oct 22, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Leah Rosenzweig
Russia’s Unlearned Lessons From the Failed Revolt of 1993 Russia’s Unlearned Lessons From the Failed Revolt of 1993
Twenty-five years ago, a nascent democracy died.
Oct 19, 2018 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina
Jason Lutes’s ‘Berlin’ Sets a New Standard for Graphic Novels Jason Lutes’s ‘Berlin’ Sets a New Standard for Graphic Novels
This expansive work follows a cast of characters caught up in the massive upheavals happening in Germany between the world wars.
Oct 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
The Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy, Editor of the ‘Alton Observer,’ Dies at the Hands of a Pro-Slavery Mob, Alton, Illinois (1837) The Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy, Editor of the ‘Alton Observer,’ Dies at the Hands of a Pro-Slavery Mob, Alton, Illinois (1837)
Christ’s editor becomes Christ’s martyr: band the newspaper columns black for Elijah P. Lovejoy, who fired back. They threw his first three presses into the river. They came with g…
Oct 18, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Range
Donald ❤ Kim Donald ❤ Kim
Trump now says he’s in love with Kim Jong-un. In that seduction, Kim Jong-un was speedy. Some ego-stroking letters did the trick. It’s really simple when a man’s that needy.
Oct 18, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Hubert Humphrey and the Unmaking of Cold War Liberalism Hubert Humphrey and the Unmaking of Cold War Liberalism
A new biography captures how the Minnesota senator and vice president was poised to be liberalism’s conscience but instead played a role in its downfall.
Oct 18, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
RaMell Ross’s Beautifully Unsentimental Meditation on Southern Life RaMell Ross’s Beautifully Unsentimental Meditation on Southern Life
Hale County This Morning, This Evening is a probing and intimate documentary about life in today’s rural Alabama.
Oct 18, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Ben Rhodes and the Crisis of Liberal Foreign Policy Ben Rhodes and the Crisis of Liberal Foreign Policy
Obama and his speechwriter and national-security adviser set out to break from the foreign-policy establishment; instead, they found themselves absorbed by it.
Oct 17, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Klion
How to Convince Conservatives That a Scientific Discovery Might Just Kill Us All How to Convince Conservatives That a Scientific Discovery Might Just Kill Us All
Step 1: You can't.
Oct 16, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow