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Courtesy of HBO The Two Americas: The White Lotus Fans and Reacher Fans
David French’s culture picks include Amazon Prime as well as HBO Max hits, and a profoundly meaningful blockbuster art film.
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Anthony Kwan / Getty Change May Be Coming in China
Following nationwide protests, the Chinese government is undertaking a partial rollback of the zero-COVID policy, but the people there are far from free.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Why Did the Oath Keepers Do It?
What was the point of an insurrection that, in the end, was about nothing?
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty The State of Free Speech
Conor Friedersdorf on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and his hopes and fears for American freedom of expression
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Never Trump Means Never
Opposing Trumpism is about more than rejecting one man.
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Joe Raedle / Getty The Authoritarian Right Is Regrouping
In Moscow, Mar-a-Lago, and beyond, desperate men are mobilizing anyone they can to help them regain power.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Thanksgiving After Fleeing the Taliban
The Afghan journalist Bushra Seddique on America, gratitude, and fried turkey
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Peter Zay / Anadolu Agency / Getty Giving Thanks for What We’ve Averted
Americans have dodged some disasters over the past few years. Let’s not forget it.
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Metin Aktas / Anadolu Agency / Getty Russia’s Vindictive Rage
Ukraine is winning, but at a high cost in reprisals on civilians.
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20th Century Studios The Horror Movie That’s Truly Worth the Hype
Shirley Li’s culture picks include Barbarian, Elena Ferrante, and Pokémon Go
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Olivier Touron / AFP / Getty Democracy’s Dunkirk
The fight to preserve American democracy continues.
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Robbie Jay Barratt / AMA / Getty Enjoying Soccer in Its Dark Age
Franklin Foer discusses what makes this year’s game so hard to watch—and what it says about the world in 2022.
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Alon Skuy / AFP / Getty Trump Is Back In
It’s time to decide what kind of country we really are.
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Athanasios Gioumpasis / Getty What Is Contrition Without Reparation?
Clint Smith discusses how Germany remembers the Holocaust—and why the process of atonement in America must look different.
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Samuel Corum / Getty Joe Biden Was Right
The president said that this election was about democracy, and the voters agreed.
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LucasFilm / Walt Disney Studios David Sims’s Culture Picks: Andor, Jane Eyre, and Jessie Buckley
The Atlantic writer has noticed that people are pretending Lydia Tár is a real person.
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Scott Olson / Getty Is the Status Update Over?
As Twitter descends into chaos and Meta sheds thousands of jobs, online sharing may be going the way of MySpace.
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Mark Wallheiser / Getty Can DeSantis Unseat Trump?
The long-awaited Republican reckoning has only just begun, says David Frum.
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Samuel Corum / Getty Democracy Was on the Ballot—And Won
The American crisis isn’t over, but the midterms were a good sign.
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Wojtek Laski / Getty When the Soviets Voted
Americans could learn something from the care that people of the U.S.S.R. took with a privilege they would hold only briefly.
