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Relying on personal effects and DNA, forensic scientists work to identify undocumented migrants who passed away in South Texas

Nikki Haley resigns; Jamal Khashoggi murdered; Kanye visits the White House

The mayor of Margaret’s Cove addresses the public slander against him

On Lacy M. Johnson’s The Reckonings, Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad, and Kristen M. Ghoddsee’s Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism; plus: an interview with the author of The Mars Room

Kavanaugh is confirmed; Earth’s governments are given 12 years to get climate change under control; Bansky trolls Sotheby’s

“The ‘free trade’ policies championed by US leaders from Reagan to Obama, most definitely including the Clintons, have produced many victims.”

A Paris photo agency transitions to the digital age

Indelible in the hippocampus: Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh

Notes on aging, memory, and fandom

Brett Kavanaugh’s calendars; Stormy Daniels describes sex with Trump; China sponsors content in the Des Moines Register

The author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal’s latest collection of essays offers a revealing tour of America 

Dynamicland seeks to free us from our devices—through technology

Back and forth across the Phoenix sprawl in triple-digit heat

Paul Manafort accepts a plea deal; Brett Kavanaugh accused of sexual assault; Jeff Bezos gets into the kindergarten racket

A reading of Jenn Alandy Trahan’s short story from the September issue “They Told Us Not to Say This,” and interview with the author

The printed word in peril; poems by Ben Lerner; among Britain’s anti-Semites 

Trump struggles to pronounce “anonymous”; a Sackler stands to profit from a new drug to treat opioid addiction; housing development workers in the Bronx are accused of having orgies on the clock

Read ’em and weep: how ballroom went from the underground to the mainstream

In the wake of Janus, don’t mourn, organize!

John McCain is eulogized; Rodrigo Duterte goes to Jerusalem; a new study shows goats prefer happy people

The story of one asylum seeker’s shakedown by notario fraudsters points to untold thousands more

Michael Cohen starts a GoFundMe; the 403rd consecutive month with above-average global temperatures passes; Europe’s biggest illegal turtle farm is shut down

On The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

“French ‘solidarity’ was looking decidedly less solid than it had the previous day.”

Omarosa publishes her White House memoir; US secretary of the interior blames California’s wildfires on environmental terrorists; avocado thefts sweep New Zealand

Garret Keizer on organized labor post-Janus; Rohini Mohan on religious conflict in India; Katie Booth on doctors learning how to treat Deaf patients; Micah Hauser on scams targeting the undocumented; and more

Any day could be doomsday—and why that’s bad

Marvel Entertainment’s CEO exerts influence over the VA; Mike Pence lays out plans for The Space Force; Paul Manafort’s trial reveals his tax evasion (and much more)

The Saudi-Canadian spat; the Catholic Church’s new position on the death penalty; a few Swedish crown jewels were stolen in broad daylight