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Daily Comment
Our Dumb Democracyby George Packer
Some of the stupidities of the political system—the Senate, for instance—are necessary. Others, like Tuesday voting and the filibuster, aren’t…
Currency
An Economic Vision of Peace in Israelby Bernard Avishai
Imagine that Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat had come to terms at Camp David in 2000. How would Israel’s economy have looked in 2010?
Page-Turner
Facing Death
with Tolstoyby Mary Beard
Peter Carson could not possibly have known how uncomfortably relevant the Russian works would become to his own life when he translated them…
On Television
Please Watch This Showby Emily Nussbaum
In a fairer universe, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” would be heralded as the best sitcom on TV…
A Reporter at Large
Can Mary Jo White Fix Wall Street?by Nicholas Lemann
Since 2008, the financial industry has changed the way it does business. Can the S.E.C.’s chair control it?
The Latest
11/6 1:46 PM
The Virgin America Safety Video, Reviewed
More people have paid attention to the Virgin America video than to decades of flight-safety demonstrations.
11/6 1:22 PM
Should Literature Be Useful?
Fiction’s lack of practical applications is what gives it its special freedom.
11/6 12:20 PM
Robert Nickelsberg’s Afghanistan: A History
Nickelsberg, a photographer, came to Afghanistan for the first time in January, 1988, on assignment for Time, to cover the Soviet
11/6 12:17 PM
Brooklyn Calling: From the Beastie Boys to Bill de Blasio
In many ways, de Blasio embodies the transformation of a borough that was long considered a poor relation to Manhattan…
11/6 11:21 AM
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 6th
Paul Noth’s Daily Cartoon for Wednesday, November 6th.
11/6 10:34 AM
“Jezebel” and Solomon: Why Patsey Is the Hero of “12 Years a Slave”
What does sex have to do with slavery? What does intimacy have to do with violence? In the absence of freedom,
11/6 9:18 AM
Study: Americans Safe from Gun Violence Except in Schools, Malls, Airports, Movie Theatres, Workplaces, Streets, Own Homes
The study makes it clear that Americans are in no danger of gun violence except in these isolated four hundred and
Editors’ Choice
U.S. Chronicles
One Nation,
Under the Gunby Jill Lepore
Why are Americans the world’s most armed civilians?
