Big Germany, What Now?
The post-Wall era is over and everyone, including the Germans, is asking which way Germany—the most powerful country in the European Union—will go.
May 23, 2024 issue
Death and Detention on the Texas Border
As Joe Biden and Greg Abbott escalate their standoff over border enforcement, migrants find themselves caught in the middle.
May 5, 2024
‘A Long-Tongue Saga’
Over the course of more than a thousand pages, Leon Forrest’s novel Divine Days, reissued after three decades, elicits from the reader every emotion from awe to exasperation.
May 23, 2024 issue
More Real Than Life
In Jane Schoenbrun’s films, personal metamorphosis happens on both sides of the screen.
May 4, 2024
Safe Havens
The UK’s “second empire” of tax-free jurisdictions around the world persists despite the overwhelming evidence that it enables corruption, drains public budgets, and exacerbates inequality.
May 23, 2024 issue
Nathan Thrall
A Day in the Life of Abed SalamaRead the article that grew into the book of the same name, this year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
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Michael Shank: How Police Became Paramilitaries“The more militarized we allow law enforcement agents to become, the more likely officers are to use lethal violence against citizens: civilian deaths have been found to increase by about 130 percent when police forces acquire significantly more military equipment.”
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