Franklin Foer
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters ‘Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion’
The late poet Mary Oliver warned against looking without noticing. In an age of distraction, her work is more urgent than ever.
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Illustration by Paul Spella; Dean Mouhtaropoulos / Getty; ... Viktor Orbán’s War on Intellect
As the Hungarian prime minister systematically undermined his own country’s education system, one institution stood defiant: a university in the heart of Budapest, founded by George Soros.
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InesBazdar / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The ... Hate Invades the Quotidian
I can no longer assure my daughters that violence won’t enter our family’s spaces.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters ‘A Convenient Life and a Good Life May Not Be the Same Thing’
Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s top antitrust regulator, hasn’t been able to take down Big Tech—but she has a theory of how to tame it.
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Grigory Dukor / Reuters The Mueller Probe Was an Unmitigated Success
The scandal is how much corruption it exposed—and how much turns out to have been perfectly legal.
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Mike Blake / Reuters We’re Losing the War on Corruption
Paul Manafort and Felicity Huffman are twin avatars of an elite that still acts with impunity.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The ‘Otherwise Blameless Life’ of Paul Manafort
Trump’s former campaign chair has always acted with impunity, as if the laws never applied to him.
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Andrew Harnik / Reuters Paul Manafort’s Sentencing Isn’t a Moment of Closure
His time at the helm of the Trump campaign remains mysterious.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters An Interlude of Moral Clarity
Michael Cohen’s testimony was a reminder that this presidency isn’t normal.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Loud Silence of Mueller’s Manafort Memo
A court filing by the special counsel is filled with elegant omissions—but that doesn’t mean nothing is there.
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Thibault Camus / AP This Week in Anti-Semitism
The surge of hatred is increasingly hard to ignore.
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Corey Brickley Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America
When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost.
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Mikhail Klimentyev / AFP / Getty The Collusion With Russia Is in Plain Sight
What did Donald Trump say to Vladimir Putin when no one else could hear them?
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Juan Medina / Reuters The Shutdown Makes Trump’s Priorities Painfully Clear
Hundreds of thousands of federal employees will stop receiving paychecks, but deportations of Mauritanians continue.
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Courtesy of Franklin Foer The Girl Who Lived
Remembering my grandmother, whose improbable survival became the foundational story for my family’s existence
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Zach Gibson / Getty / Paul Spella / ... Cory Booker’s Theory of Love
As he eyes a run for president, the senator from New Jersey remains stridently conciliatory.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Curse of The Weekly Standard
At its best, the conservative magazine was lively, warm, and unexpected. But it never had to try very hard.
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Reuters / Department of Justice The Mysterious Return of Manafort’s ‘Russian Brain’
Mueller says that the former Trump campaign chairman repeatedly lied about his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik, a man with ties to Russian intelligence.
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Diana Walker / Time Life Pictures / Getty The Last WASP President
George H. W. Bush wasn’t the last of the Republican moderates. He was the archetype of the modern GOP, a man whose blue blood shouldn’t be confused with moral courage.
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FreedomMaster / Getty A Prayer for Squirrel Hill—And for American Jewry
The Pittsburgh synagogue killings show that dormant hatreds have reawakened.
