Commentary — November 15, 2018, 11:51 am
Certain Certainties
What Amazon HQ2 means for New York City
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Commentary — November 15, 2018, 11:51 am
What Amazon HQ2 means for New York City
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“Monarchy offers a fantasy of national communion while, by its very existence, making it more unlikely to ever come to pass.”
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The Clintons' so-called charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends.
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“A progressive Europe—the Europe of sustainable growth and social cohesion—would be one thing. The gridlocked, reactionary, petty, and vicious Europe that actually exists is another. It cannot and should not last for very long.”
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Jonathan Chait's flawed attack on David Bromwich's critique of Barack Obama's presidency
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In defense of the PEN America Center's decision to give Charlie Hebdo its Freedom of Expression Courage Award
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Afghanistan fights fire with fire in its war against the Taliban
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Why the Help America Vote Act has done anything but.
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Mandatory voting would greatly expand American electoral participation—and help the Democrats.
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Looking back on Taftanaz and the slowly shifting course of Syria’s revolution.
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Why are multilevel-marketing companies making big donations to state attorney-general candidates?
On February 5, 2019, the president of the United States (a certain Donald Trump) in his State of the Union speech warned of “migrant caravans and accused Mexican cities of busing migrants to the border ‘to bring them up to our country in areas where there is little border protection.’ ”? Wishing to see the border for myself, I decided to visit Arizona, where my ignorance of local conditions might save me from prejudgment.
On a November Saturday in 1990, Pam went over to Joe’s place to listen to records. It was raining in sheets that whipped around the corners of buildings and blowing so hard that women in heels were taking men’s arms to cross the street. Cars were plowing bow waves through puddles of scum.
As Joe was letting Pam into the apartment, a man emerged from the bedroom with a square sheet of black plastic in his hand and said, “Hey, man, you have the Sassy Sonic Youth flexi!”
Discussed in this essay:
Stalingrad, by Vasily Grossman. Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler. New York Review Books. 1,088 pages. $27.95.
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century, by Alexandra Popoff. Yale University Press. 424 pages. $32.50.
Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman. Translated by Robert Chandler. New York Review Books. 904 pages. $24.95.
An Armenian Sketchbook, by Vasily Grossman. Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler. New York Review Books. 160 pages. $14.95.
Cost of renting a giant panda from the Chinese government, per day:
A recent earthquake in Chile was found to have shifted the city of Concepción ten feet to the west, shortened Earth’s days by 1.26 microseconds, and shifted the planet’s axis by nearly three inches.
A swarm of ladybugs in California was so large that it appeared on the National Weather Service’s radar.
“Nowadays, most states let just about anybody who wants a concealed-handgun permit have one; in seventeen states, you don’t even have to be a resident. Nobody knows exactly how many Americans carry guns, because not all states release their numbers, and even if they did, not all permit holders carry all the time. But it’s safe to assume that as many as 6 million Americans are walking around with firearms under their clothes.”
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