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Articles
Charlie Baker’s Success
The Massachusetts governor resembles an older variety of conservative
Familiar Things
The TV series Stranger Things portrays family breakdown yesterday and today.
Two Kinds Of Patriotism
How immigration affects the contest between ethno-nationalists and multiculturalists.
Features
Books, Arts & Manners
Huddled Masses
What are the effects on families of living in a city of skyscrapers?
God’s Plenty
"If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” ...
To Not-So-Boldly Go
“The vaguer the title, the weaker the plot” isn’t an ironclad rule, but it isn’t a bad assumption.
Cracked History
Nancy Isenberg has produced, in White Trash, a dreadfully stupid and lazy book.
Locked In
A book that is part travel journal, part history, part anthropological study, part policy review, etc.
The China Delusion
China doesn't need to be a source of worry, Anja Manuel says, unless we overreact.
Sections
Letters
The Disability Trap
David French’s article on the VA’s overmedication of veterans (“Casualties of the VA,” July 11) was most insightful; your candor is especially noteworthy. You failed to mention what ...
The Week
‐ If only the State Department were as focused on its mission as the Clinton Foundation.
‐ Hillary Rodham Clinton does not like to do press conferences, but she may change ...
Customer Service Report 10.002.1
Customer states that current software build HRC Unit 4.4 works well in high-stress situations.
Deal Me Out
Trump’s actual answer when asked what would be the best deal he could negotiate.
Poetry
A PAINTING IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY
Flowers and weeds together spill,
Careless and drizzly, down the hill
In a long back garden that’s anywhere
Outside London. I am living there
Beside the window, no longer ...
Trump Tourism in Hillary Country
Deep in the heart of a deep-blue city, hugging a bright-green river, there rises a massive, gleaming hotel that bears the name of Trump.