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Politics and government

The Minds of Others

by David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Laila Lalami, Mychal Denzel Smith, T. M. Luhrmann,

The art of persuasion in the age of Trump

Before the Deluge

by Petra Bartosiewicz,

How Washington sealed Puerto Rico’s fate

Crossing Guards

by Matt Mossman,

When private ownership of a bridge gets old

Preaching to The Choir

by Rebecca Solnit,

Once, on a river-rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, I traveled with a charming, good-humored man who happened to run an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He liked…

Monumental Error

by J. C. Hallman,

Will New York City finally tear down a statue?

A Sport and a Passport

From an interview conducted by Swiss authorities with Fulden Funda Yilmaz, a woman who was born to Turkish parents in Switzerland. Yilmaz applied for citizenship earlier this year, passed the…

Rensselaer County, New York

by Lydia Davis,

The latest issue that has come before our village board is whether to add an animal-control regulation to the village laws. A member of the public has come to one…

San Francisco

by Anna Wiener,

Since Inauguration Day, across Silicon Valley I’ve been hearing software engineers who earn six figures talk about solidarity, collective action, and the rise of labor against capital. In July, word…

DeLisle, Mississippi

by Jesmyn Ward,

When I was six, a pit bull tried to rip out my throat. I was walking down my parents’ oystershell driveway when the dog attacked me, probably because another dog,…

Haleiwa, Hawaii

by Paul Theroux,

When people in Hawaii first learned of North Korea’s latest threat — that it might soon launch a preemptive strike that could obliterate our lovely islands with a nuclear bomb…

Iowa City, Iowa

by Marilynne Robinson,

Like the country as a whole, Iowa has a Republican chief executive and a Republican-controlled legislature that creates problems where they need not exist, problems that look like the effects…