As of Wednesday, the deadline set by the Democratic National Committee to qualify for the third primary debate, to be held in mid-September, only ten candidates had made the cut: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Julián Castro, and Andrew Yang. To make it, the […]
When main-draw singles play at the U.S. Open began, on Monday, there were, among the thirty-two seeded women’s players, four from the Czech Republic. There were also four American women—no other nation had more than that—but the population of the Czech Republic is about three per cent that of the United States. For that matter, […]
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If the law of diminishing returns applied to American politics, the resignation of the vice-chair of the Federal Election Commission (F.E.C.), Matthew Petersen, on Monday, would be a single data point on the downslope of democracy. The F.E.C. is the sole agency tasked with overseeing and enforcing campaign-finance laws, and Petersen’s departure leaves it without […]
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Even committed fans of Henry James’s novels are sometimes ambivalent about “The Princess Casamassima,” in which a young, impoverished aesthete, Hyacinth Robinson, falls in with a group of would-be revolutionaries and pledges to sacrifice himself to their cause. The book, published in 1886, is an outlier in James’s novelistic output, which consists mostly of understated […]
This month, the partisan alliance between President Donald Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, reached a new level of intensity. Trump called on Netanyahu to bar the Democratic Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering Israel, and Netanyahu agreed to his demand, using a law that allows Israel to ban supporters of […]
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Before returning to Argentina from exile, in 1973, Juan Perón famously said, “It is not that we were good, but those who came after us were so bad that they made us look good.” Perón died in office a year later, during his third Presidential term; he left behind a controversial legacy and a loosely […]