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Attorney general nominee William Barr — much like his predecessor Jeff Sessions — declined to offer a definitive response about whether or not he would jail journalists when pressed on the issue during his Tuesday confirmation hearing. “If you’re confirmed,…
William Barr, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, is on board with the president’s position on the border wall and the government shutdown — and his mischaracterization of Democrats’ position on border security too. In an exchange with Sen.…
President Donald Trump has reportedly suggested on multiple occasions that the United States withdraw from NATO — a maneuver that would roil the global community and signal a major victory for Russia. Julian Barnes and Helene Cooper at the New…
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…
