Harvard held its commencement today. Meanwhile, across the Charles River, in Boston, a federal judge moved to block Donald Trump’s attempt to ban the university from enrolling international students. A dispatch from an emotional day on campus. Plus: • The Supreme Court undercuts yet another check on executive power• At last, a new non-opioid painkiller•…
The New Yorker is not, by any definition, a fashion magazine, but it is—and nearly always has been—a magazine concerned with fashion. The publication’s mascot, Eustace Tilley, is, after all, defined by accessories: his gleaming top hat, crisp white gloves, and dandyish monocle are all totems of both persnickety good taste and the febrile effort…
Meeting him at the Prado made good sense, though. Anderson is a serious collector of ceramics and paintings, and he is also a patron of the arts: he inaugurated the now annual Loewe Craft Prize and is on the board of the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London. I welcomed the opportunity to see the…
I walked into the Washington Post building for the first time in the summer of 1981. Past the red linotype machine that marked the entrance to the Post’s Fifteenth Street headquarters for so many years and up to the fifth-floor newsroom, a cavernous space that looked just as it’s depicted in “All the President’s Men.”…
In today’s newsletter, Susan B. Glasser’s takeaways from the President’s address to Congress. Plus: Photograph by Win McNamee / Getty Trump’s Golden Age of Bunk In a Castro-length speech to Congress, the President claimed victory, while proving that even the most unhinged address can be boring if it goes on long enough. Susan B. Glasser,…
In today’s newsletter, a report on the Ukrainian spy who is accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline. But, first, reflections on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, at a perilous geopolitical moment. Plus: A memorial ceremony marking the anniversary, in Irpin, northwest of Kyiv. Photograph by Roman Pilipey / AFP / Getty Joshua…
In today’s newsletter, understanding the true threats to election integrity, and then: China, Iran, and Russia are the prime manipulators of U.S. political discourse.Illustration by Ben Wiseman The U.S. Spies Who Warn About Election Interference A group of intelligence officials confers about when to alert the public to foreign meddling. This Presidential race is a…