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On the afternoon of June 3, 2017, a twenty-five-year-old N.S.A. contractor named Reality Leigh Winner came home, with a bag of groceries, and found herself confronted by several F.B.I. agents. An agent named Justin C. Garrick told her that he…
The cruellest strains of contemporary American life are inseparable from the cruellest aspects of American history. Many of the best works of modern American cinema dramatize that history in the hope of resisting and overcoming its insidious power. One such…
Every death erases a uniqueness. But to say that there was no one on earth like Francine du Plessix Gray is to state a simple and obvious truth. There were three cultural—call them national—streams in her existence: French by birth…
Cristiano Ronaldo secured a lucrative $113 million contract to transfer to Turin-based Serie A winners Juventus late last summer, and has since expressed a wish that Barcelona star Lionel Messi would follow in his footsteps, referring to his own switch…
The excavation and construction of China’s Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in the Guangdong province recently wrapped up, bringing researchers one step closer to being able to further examine neutrinos and their mass hierarchy. According to the Scientific American, neutrinos are subatomic…
Democrats attempted to pass a stopgap funding bill for the government already in December 2018, but the bill was rejected by the White House because it didn’t contain the $5.7 billion in funding for Trump’s plans to build a wall…
