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May 29, 2025 issue
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In the films of the Ukrainian director Kira Muratova, characters are always tipping toward both laughter and violence.
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Zionism Without Zion
Rachel Cockerell’s family saga shows that in the search for a Jewish homeland, Palestine was only one possible location.
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An EPA Without Science
The agency’s rollbacks under Lee Zeldin suggest that Trump’s war on the administrative state has become, effectively, a war on the future.
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The Spy in the Jeu de Paume
The detailed information gathered by the French curator Rose Valland about the Nazis’ looting of artworks made it possible for the Allies to recover tens of thousands of them after World War II.
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