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“Movies are the dream models by which multiple generations have codified, altered, and pushed the boundaries of their behavior,” the artist Chris Ware says about his latest New Yorker cover, his twenty-fourth. Arriving on newsstands six days before the Academy…
It should be no surprise that Washington’s Syrian Kurdish allies—who have long had daggers drawn and pointed at our fellow NATO member Turkey—are now reconciling with our Syrian enemy President Bashar al-Assad. Since the outbreak of the Syrian war in…
I didn’t need another thing to take care of. Life was already too busy. I could barely keep up with my daily to-do list as it was. That’s what I told myself as I contemplated (for the umpteenth time) making…
Lewis McCrary, executive editor: I was delighted to recently discover The Gargoyle Hunters, a debut novel published by architectural journalist John Freeman Gill last year. Because Gill is not among the few recognized authors in contemporary literary fiction who command instant adulation,…
After a five-year battle, Virginia might finally be on the verge of expanding Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of its poorest residents. The state’s new Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, told me Friday evening that he was cautiously optimistic that…
As the rapid ascent of Bitcoin has been drawing the attention of criminal minds to cryptocurrencies, a team of security experts warns about a possible security risk in probably one of the most popular and ubiquitous Microsoft products out there…
