NR PLUS
Magazine August 24, 2015, Issue

David behind the Wheel

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(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
Uber takes on the yellow-checkered Goliath

Las Vegas — ‘Vegas is a totally normal place to live,” the cabbie says as we take in the view of the giant black pyramid with the klieg light shooting out of the top and the miniature Manhattan skyline and the beardy guy who makes his living by dressing up like Zach Galifianakis’s character from The Hangover — complete with strap-on baby carrier and fake baby. The traffic in front of us is a bit snarled up because a couple of trucks are towing mobile billboards down the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard with almost completely naked blondes posing next …

In This Issue

Articles

Politics & Policy

Born in the U.S.A.

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One of the most important questions America will face over the coming decades is how to successfully integrate the children of immigrants. As of 2013, there were 17.4 million children ...
Politics & Policy

My Tomboy Heaven

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The transgender trend has reached down to children. I wonder what people would have thought of my gender identity as a child. My experience says, yes, gender identity is complicated, ...
Politics & Policy

Calculating Cruz

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When Donald Trump’s presidential bid started attracting serious attention, it was perhaps unsurprising that Ted Cruz was the only other Republican candidate to offer kind words about his new rival. ...

Features

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

Origin Stories

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Mystique and Aura still perform their occasional magic for the New York Yankees but are slowing down. “Those are dancers in a nightclub,” Curt Schilling scoffed, before taking the ball ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

Letters

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Sanders: Not a Nazi, Just a National Socialist In “Adventures in National Socialism” (July 6), Kevin D. Williamson conflates Senator Bernie Sanders’s “democratic socialism” with National Socialism, the system of Adolf ...
Politics & Policy

The Week

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‐ Planned Parenthood is clearly worried that this story has legs ($22/lb.). ‐ Telling a pollster you support Donald Trump, for some large percentage of those who do, is a way ...
Athwart

Cecil-Justice Warriors

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The Aussie voice on the other end of the phone explained that it was calling from a Melbourne talk-radio station, and could I say a few words about Cecil the ...
Politics & Policy

Poetry

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VASE OF ROSES The sunrise burned so bright behind and within the mists of daybreak as to overspill a radiance across the long curve of horizon, broken by the dark line of trees above the ...
Happy Warrior

Socialism for Dummies

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When I first heard that Debbie Wasserman Schultz couldn’t explain to Chris Matthews the difference between what Democrats believe and what socialists believe, I chalked it up to her incompetence. ...