IN THE April 3, 2017, ISSUE
Russia, Europe, and the West
In defense of President Trump’s emerging foreign policy.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
Scoring the GOP Health-Care Plan
The House may need to move slower than it would like.
California’s Bilingual-Ed Mistake
Voters replaced a program that was working with one that didn’t.
Features
Russia, Europe, and the West
In defense of President Trump’s emerging foreign policy.
Professor Propaganda
Peter Navarro is positioned to give the president a lot of bad advice.
Books, Arts & Manners
Restoring U.S. Strength
The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
The ‘Dual Life’ of Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter will always be remembered primarily for her “little books,” which used anthropomorphized animals to teach us how to be better human beings.
Glittering Prizes
The disaster that overtook this year’s Oscar telecast in its closing moments, like so many strange events of the last two years, seemed almost scripted in its wild implausibility.
Sections
Letters
The Limits of Proportional Representation
One must wrestle with two related issues when discussing gerrymandering:
(1) If a state is divided 60–40 between Party A and Party B, and its ten neatly ...
The Week
‐ He pounds his chest, he roars, he perches on high-profile Manhattan real estate, and he can only be tamed by a clever blonde lady: Who could have seen this ...
Will the U.S. Survive If Big Bird Leaves His Federally Feathered Nest?
Federal employees are living on hardtack and orange peels as it is, shivering around trash-can fires in shantytown shacks.
Poetry
THE APOTHEOSIS OF DON JUNE
Promiscuous as moonlight on sand,
He pondered heaven by the foaming surf;
And staring at its brilliant text he saw
He’d never been voluptuous enough.
There were so many things ...
Insolvent Snowflakes
Social Security and Medicare are going to blow up the federal budget as millions of Baby Boomers reach retirement age and slouch ever so leisurely toward the grave.