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"Could I not avoid Trump and his bullshit, not even by crossing the Atlantic Ocean?"

U.S. president Donald Trump, who once told reporters during his campaign that he wouldn’t take “off the table” the possibility of dropping a nuclear bomb on Europe or the Middle East, departed for a 17-day trip to his New Jersey golf course, where he tweeted that he was on a “working vacation” and then threatened to rain “fire and fury” on North Korea. Read more...

An artist's rendition of a closed session of Congress.

A leaked account of a recent White House meeting depicted Trump comparing his advisers to a consultant who he felt gave bad advice to the owners of one of his favorite Manhattan restaurants in the 1980s; it was reported that Trump told an audience at his golf club in New Jersey that the White House was “a real dump” and that the members, who pay him dues, were his “real people”; and then Trump departed for a 17-day visit to the club, where he was once planning to build a mausoleum for himself. Read more...

Trump gave a speech before 40,000 Boy Scouts as young as 11 in which he announced that during his presidency children will say “Merry Christmas” when they “go shopping,” and told a story about when he was a “very young” man at a cocktail party in New York City with “the hottest people” and met for the first time a real-estate developer named William Levitt, who gave him life advice.

A visit to Wisconsin's oldest continually operated tavern.

David Wong Louie, Sarah A. Topol, Helen Vendler, Philip Roth, and more...

Donald Jr. wrote that his father, who days before the meeting with Veselnitskaya had told the press he would soon announce incriminating information about his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, “knew nothing of the meeting,” and that during the meeting he received “no meaningful information” to help his father, who then did not announce any incriminating information about Clinton. Read more...

"Loathing for Trump makes people forget that, among other horrors, a coalition of Republicans and Democrats has already wasted around $3.7 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan, sacrificed the lives of nearly 7,000 American soldiers, and wounded more than 52,000."

The breakdown of political norms in Indonesia

From a list of former North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il's teachings translated into English and posted on a government website.

Men in Florida, Ohio, and D.C. get into trouble...

Rollercoaster, a collage created using oil-painted paper and vintage magazine clippings by Cheryl Molnar, whose work is on view this week at Wave Hill House, in the Bronx, New York. Courtesy the artist and Wave Hill

Senate Republicans release their health-care-reform bill, Steve Bannon says Sean Spicer “got fatter,” and geologists warn of a 92-year-old earthquake

Zadie Smith, Masha Gessen, Rebecca Solnit, Joseph O'Neill, and more...

The Russia probe continues

Muslim Americans on pursuing political careers in the age of Trump 

A Republican congressman from Nebraska refused to say whether people were “entitled to eat.”

Economist Michael Hudson on the future of the stock market

"Les Rendezvous in July" will bring together a hundred participants from print, radio, and television journalism, documentary filmmakers, authors of graphic reportage, photojournalists, monologists, and stage actors.

The conservative movement to save the planet

Trump visited Belgium, where he reportedly ate “lots of” chocolates and then complained he did not have a positive impression of the European Union because it took him two and a half years to get a license to open up a golf course in Ireland.

A Sudanese refugee on life in Darfur 

Trump held a meeting in the Oval Office with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, inviting one Russian photographer, but no U.S. journalists, to attend.

The success of Germany's AfD party has in good part been owed to its ability to put a friendly face on a nasty message.

Michael Glennon on Trump's war with the security state, Helen Ouyang on health care in the Black Belt, Rebecca Elliott and Elizabeth Rush on the battle over New York City’s flood zones, a story by Nell Zink, and more...

Trump visited Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey, where he has filed plans to build a mausoleum for himself, and it was reported that he has spent 36 days as president visiting his own properties, including his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, where the Secret Service has paid his club at least $35,000 for golf-cart rentals, and his golf club in Sterling, Virginia, which bears a plaque marking the site of a Civil War battle called the “River of Blood,” which never occurred.