The first American novel to offer a detailed view of the movie industry may be a young-adult book written pseudonymously in a packaged series, and, for all its sub-literary simplifications, its virtues are of a sort that eludes many better novels. The book, “The Moving Picture Girls, or First Appearances in Photo Dramas,” from 1914, […]
Sometimes, sexual abusers get lenient treatment because the police are unwilling to fully investigate their alleged crimes. Maybe they blame the victim, tacitly or not, or the evidence is murky, or victims are reluctant to come forward; maybe the acts occurred in a time and place where people tended not to see them as legally […]
The past two weeks has seen a surge in reporting on how U.S. Customs and Border Protection treats immigrants as they enter the country. On Monday, July 1st, lawmakers toured border-patrol facilities in El Paso and Clint, Texas, and spoke with women who were detained there. The women recounted that their children had been taken […]
Much of the time, the Trump Administration looks like a flailing force, a machine of deregulation, defunding, and destruction. Once in a while, though, it actually creates something intentionally and efficiently. The packing of the federal judiciary is one such pocket of sustained action. Another appears to be the State Department’s reframing of the concept […]
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When I moved to a new apartment in the West Village, two summers ago, one of the first things that I noticed about my new micro-neighborhood was how the northwest corner of Bedford and Grove was never empty. People were there at all hours, taking pictures of one another or posing for selfies. It’s a […]
On July 4th, President Trump held just one telephone call with a foreign leader—President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, of Egypt, a former field marshal who has orchestrated two military coups since 2011 and now ranks as the most autocratic leader in his country’s modern history. A week earlier, at the G-20 summit of world leaders in […]
Of course, it was Megan Rapinoe who scored the game-winning goal in the United States’ 2–0 victory over the Netherlands, in the final of the World Cup. And of course she did it in the way that she did: taking a penalty kick in the sixty-first minute, with all the attention and pressure of the […]
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For much of the first set in her fourth-round match at Wimbledon, against Simona Halep, Cori (Coco) Gauff held her own. That, in itself, was impressive: Gauff is fifteen years old and came into Wimbledon ranked three hundred and thirteenth, whereas Halep was the seventh seed, a Grand Slam champion and a former world No. […]