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Is Israel Committing Genocide?I have been engaged for six decades in the human rights movement, which has endeavored to restore peace by enforcing International Humanitarian...
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A View from CairoIn February satellite photographs of a new militarized buffer zone along Egypt’s border with Gaza circulated online. The Egyptian...
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Reading, Reading, ReadingTwo thirds of the way into Peter C. Baker’s review of a recent translation of The Wall, a 1963 postapocalyptic novel by Marlen Haushofer, he...
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UCLA: Whose Violence?Around 10:30 in the morning on Thursday, May 2, a handful of volunteer attorneys stood on a small lawn sandwiched between two jails, waiting for...
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Inside Uber’s Political MachineIn 2016, near the end of his second term as president, Barack Obama was asked what he planned to do on returning to civilian life. He gave a...
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In Harvard YardWhen students set up the tents at Harvard on April 24, I was standing with the police on the steps of the building that houses the president’s...
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Death and Detention on the Texas BorderIt began as a small group: a few dozen travelers drifting towards the border, full of fear and hope, united in the belief that they could change...
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More Real Than LifeWhat kind of place is the Internet? A few years ago, an essay called “The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet,” by Yancey Strickler, one of the...
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Dancing on the Page“How do I capture what happened—and what moved me—during a performance that most of my readers will never have a chance to see?”
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The Whistleblower We DeserveThe ambiguous hero of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People is a man of science who insists on the primacy of truth and evidence. But he’s also,...
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Supersize That?New supertall skyscrapers planned for Manhattan will reduce the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building to the scale of souvenir...
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Safe HavensThe UK’s ”second empire” of tax-free jurisdictions around the world persists despite the overwhelming evidence that it enables corruption, drains...
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Transatlantic FlightsThe collected poems of Denise Levertov and Anne Stevenson suggest what a poet can gain by expatriation, in both directions between England and the...
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Ecstasy’s OdysseyWhen the creator of MDMA first experimented with the drug, he felt a mellow sensation that he compared to "a low-calorie martini."
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‘A Long-Tongue Saga’The novel Divine Days by Leon Forrest, reissued after three decades, is over a thousand pages that elicit from the reader every emotion from awe...
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Triumphs of SkepticismHilary Mantel wrote in favor of the doubting, the irreverent, and even the fickle against conservatism, nostalgia, and sentiment.
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Dr. BJill Biden is a barrier-breaking national figure. What are we to make of the wholesome, at times bland story she tells about herself?
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How Bondage Built the ChurchRachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of...
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‘Give Me Joy’Madonna’s genius is not just for controversy, or for pressing on the fissures in femininity, or for her bold support of once-unpopular causes. It...
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The Woman in the WellIn Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, a dissatisfied Italian everywoman starts keeping a diary, and eventually her own thoughts become too...
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Self-Portrait of the US as Conjoined TwinsIt was there since the beginning: the white rope, eye splice...
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Perpetual ExpectationThe Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s operas have a pervasive aura of waiting for something just out of sight, shrouded in veil upon veil.
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Translation Without AngelsI was given an idea of the good and I was taken quickly from the same idea, though at first it was as simple as a tree I saw the ground,...
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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.
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The Immunity ConOn April 25 the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. United States, on whether a former president enjoys immunity from prosecution for...
