Last week, as Israel called up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers, Eran Tamir, an infantryman who had served four tours of…
CULTURE
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Richard Kind is the Platonic ideal of a character actor. When he shows up in something—as Larry David’s cousin in “Curb Your…
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For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. In the winter of 2022, Rachel Maddow…
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On Friday evening, I was texting with a friend when I happened to mention where I was: sitting in the middle of…
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Lord knows what the gaggle of tenth graders chewing French fries and puffing Marlboro Lights made of the small septuagenarian woman who…
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To some degree, we always overinterpret elections. They can be decided by differences in proportion so small that, if the election had…
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“The Clock,” the addictive film masterpiece by the Swiss artist Christian Marclay, has been showing continually at MOMA since November, and some…
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She’s an exceptionally bright student. I’d taught her before, and I knew her to be quick and diligent. So what, exactly, did…
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At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,” puts…
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The most heartening, and maybe most important, event of the Trump Administration so far arrived just after 1 A.M., on Saturday, in…
