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The Middle East: Trump Blunders In

Do the Democrats Have a Foreign Policy?

In August 2017 Ronan Farrow, then an investigative correspondent at NBC News, attended a meeting with Kim Harris, the general counsel of NBCUniversal, regarding the status of his story on sexual harassment and assault by the renowned film producer Harvey Weinstein. In the meeting, Farrow writes in his book Catch and Kill, Harris warned that the network might be “open to a tortious interference argument,” as several of Farrow’s sources, including the actress Rose McGowan and an Italian model named Ambra Gutierrez, apparently had breached their confidentiality agreements by speaking to him. Farrow was aghast at this warning.

How ‘Big Law’ Makes Big Money

Adam Tooze

Katharina Pistor’s ‘The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality’

The Middle East: Trump Blunders In

Steven Simon

The assassination of Qassim Suleimani has left almost everyone, at home and abroad, confused about President Trump’s policy toward Iran.

Do the Democrats Have a Foreign Policy?

Jessica T. Mathews

To be sure, we badly need to repair the fractures in our democracy, but we will need an actual foreign policy as well.

Romare Bearden: Assembling America

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis

Bearden’s work as an artist and leader shows how the multiplicity of the black experience is central to understanding America.

The Designated Mourner

Fintan O’Toole

Joe Biden is the most gothic figure in American politics. He is haunted by death, not just by the private tragedies his family has endured, but by a larger and more public sense of loss.

Is Trump Above the Law?

Noah Feldman

If the Senate does not remove Trump, what will that mean for his presidency, and for impeachment itself?

It Had to Be Her

Cathleen Schine

Like the stories of most notorious women, Alma Mahler’s is one of sex and power. She had a liking and a talent for both.

The Great Amalgamator

David Salle

Rachel Harrison’s starting point is a feeling of disconnectedness, estrangement, and simmering revolt fed by a finely cultivated disgust.

‘A Doubtful Freedom’

David W. Blight

Andrew Delbanco’s ‘The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War’

Blood and Brexit

Nick Laird

Every evil act I’ve ever seen committed was done in the name of identity.

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No More Nice Dems

Joseph O’Neill

We live in a two-party system in which one party poses existential threats to our democracy and the habitability of the planet.

What Were Dinosaurs For?

Verlyn Klinkenborg

It has become impossible to think about extinction in the old ways, to regard the end-Cretaceous demise of some 80 percent of life on earth as a remote, alien fact.