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The Fierce Courage of Nina Simone

Economic stagnation, political stalemate, rising right-wing populism—this has been France’s condition for a decade or more. So has nothing changed since the Charlie Hebdo killings? Yes it has, and not simply because of the Bataclan massacre.

Cancer: A Time for Skeptics

Jerome Groopman

The progress over the past forty-five years in combating cancer arose largely from challenging authority and rejecting conventional thinking.

Kicked Out in America!

Jason DeParle

Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City’

Windows on the Will

Zadie Smith

Human needs, Schopenhauer thought, are not in their essence complex.

The Koch Brothers’ New Brand

Bill McKibben

Jane Mayer’s ‘Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right’

Liberal, Harsh Denmark

Hugh Eakin

The open, egalitarian nation has taken one of the hardest lines on refugees

The Psychologists Take Power

Tamsin Shaw

We should be wary of conferring moral authority on sources that have no plausible claims to such authority

A New Deal for Europe

Thomas Piketty

Only a social and democratic refounding of the eurozone can counter hateful nationalistic impulses

TV: The Shame of Wisconsin

Lorrie Moore

‘Making a Murderer’ by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos

We Are Hopelessly Hooked

Jacob Weisberg

Our sudden transformation into device people

A Country Breaking Down

Elizabeth Drew

The wealthiest nation on earth is nowhere near the top in its infrastructure

The Truth About the Resistance

Robert O. Paxton

Who were the resisters, what were they resisting, and what difference did they really make?

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‘A Very Sadistic Man’

Janet Malcolm

Jonathan Bate’s ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’

‘The EU Is on the Verge of Collapse’—An Interview

George Soros and Gregor Peter Schmitz

Kicking a ball uphill so that it keeps rolling back down

The Collision Sport on Trial

David Maraniss

Collisions are the essence of football. They are intended to occur on every play in every game.

The Real Legacy of Steve Jobs

Sue Halpern

Jobs had an abiding belief in freedom—his own.

The Triumph of the Hard Right

Garry Wills

‘Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism—from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond’ by E.J. Dionne Jr.

A Different T.S. Eliot

Edward Mendelson

Three new books make it possible to see more deeply than before into Eliot’s inner life

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ISIS in Gaza

Sarah Helm

The green flags of Hamas could yet be engulfed in the black flags of ISIS

How to Cover the One Percent

Michael Massing

Philanthropy is one of the principal ways in which the superrich exert influence

A Ghost Story

Joan Acocella

On ‘Brodsky/Baryshnikov’

Parking the Big Money

Cass R. Sunstein

Gabriel Zucman’s ‘The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens’

In the Sculptor’s Studio

Jed Perl

A reconsideration of the tradition that begins with Rodin

Reading Augustine’s Mind

Garry Wills

Robin Lane Fox’s ‘Augustine: Conversions to Confessions’

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