Weekly Review — August 25, 2016, 4:38 pm

Weekly Review

A 12-year-old boy was placed in charge of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Jefferson County, Colorado, by his mother, an official campaign coordinator. “You have a responsibility to your children,” she said, “to teach them.” Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned after it was reported that he received $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments from former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, for whom Manafort consulted, and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation removed a statue of a naked Trump from Union Square. “NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection,” said a spokesperson, “no matter how small.” Read more…

By Matthew Hickey

Art, Monday Gallery — August 22, 2016, 3:05 pm

“Big Marsh, Calumet Region, Chicago, 2015,” a photograph by Terry Evans, whose work is on view in the exhibition Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy, at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, in Chicago. Photograph © The artist

Weekly Review — August 16, 2016, 2:50 pm

Weekly Review

A Filipino congressman called for banning Trump from the Philippines after the candidate referred to the country as a “terrorist nation” and called its denizens “animals,” and a Trump supporter from Virginia traveled to New York City and climbed 16 stories of Trump Tower with suction cups to demand an audience with the candidate, who was campaigning in Virginia at the time. It was reported that Trump’s campaign manager received $12.7 million in “undisclosed cash payments” from a pro-Russian political party in 2012, and Clinton’s tax returns revealed that 96 percent of her charitable donations last year were made to the Clinton Family Foundation. A black coating of biofilm was found growing on monuments across Washington, D.C. Read more…

By Matthew Sherrill

Art, Monday Gallery — August 15, 2016, 2:10 pm

Untitled, 1958–59, a painting by Vivian Springford, whose work is currently on view at the Denver Art Museum in the exhibition Women of Abstract Expressionism. Her work was included in a book of the same name, published in June by Yale University Press. Artwork courtesy McCormick Gallery, Chicago, and Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York City

Editor's Note — August 12, 2016, 11:52 am

Inside the September Issue

Andrew Cockburn on the Saudi slaughter in Yemen, Carolyn Kormann on California homeowners’ battle with nature, Alan Jacobs on the disappearance of Christian intellectuals, a forum on a post-Obama foreign policy, a story by Alice McDermott, and more

By James Marcus

Weekly Review — August 10, 2016, 11:44 am

Weekly Review

A grandmother in New Mexico was arrested for allowing her drunk 13-year-old grandson to drive, the start-up company Ambrosia announced plans to start clinical trials in which older adults seeking “rejuvenation” would receive blood transfusions from people between the ages of 16 and 25, and alumni contributions to colleges and universities nationwide dropped because of protests over racial equality on campuses. “I feel that I have been lied to, patronized, and basically dismissed as an old, white bigot,” wrote an Amherst alumnus. Read more…

By Marisa Nakasone