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American cities are slowly rallying around a new response to the opioid epidemic: safe spaces for using heroin. The concept recently gained traction in Philadelphia, where officials announced this week that they intend to open such a space, known as…
Jesse Wintermute, a thirty-two-year-old masseur who specializes in lower-back pain, was recently hired to work a house party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He didn’t know until he arrived, with a portable massage table in tow, that it was a party to…
In 1947, a group of scientists who participated in the Manhattan Project—America’s crash wartime effort to manufacture an atom bomb during the Second World War—unveiled what it called the “Doomsday Clock” to graphically convey their concern over the danger posed by…
Donald Trump’s promise of “a deal of the century” to end the conflict between Israel and the Arabs is getting legs. After a year of discussions led by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the main elements of the president’s design are…
The Cold War: A World History, Odd Arne Westad, Basic Books, 662 pages In a new introduction to his classic novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carré evokes memories of the early days of the…
Browsing in the video store (to hell with Netflix!), sedulously avoiding superheroes, sex comedies, and Amy Schumer, I picked up the recent release Ithaca, hoping it might be a satire on that Upstate New York college town. ’Twas even better:…
