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The cover for this week’s issue is “Early Morning,” by Kenton Nelson. See what’s inside: https://t.co/WbeYNI2m59
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Mark Singer recalls a 1997 flight with Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell, and a phone conversation the two had with a friend named Jeffrey.
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From the daily newsletter: remembering a trip to Mar-a-Lago.
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Was the multiheaded legal pursuit of Donald Trump one big mistake?
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New books look at the January 6th Trial That Wasn’t and other failed prosecutions—and whether they might have changed history.
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When Donald Trump appointed Kash Patel director of the F.B.I., Bureau leaders gave him “the benefit of the doubt,” a former senior official said. “But they quickly figured out that he wasn’t really in control.” https://t.co/8vPbn2aC1L
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Recent scholarship on Hilma af Klint has revealed that some of her paintings may not have been made alone, and rather were a collaborative effort with her esoterically inclined friends.
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As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.
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In today’s crossword: horse’s meal container (seven letters).
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Horse’s meal container: seven letters.
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On President’s Day weekend in 1997, Mark Singer boarded a private jet with Donald Trump, whom he was profiling. Also on board? A smiling Ghislaine Maxwell. https://t.co/mp8eqwByIH
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Will McPhail. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to get more cartoons and other funny stuff right in your inbox: https://t.co/onvVr0NDrM
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For many Democrats, it is now received wisdom that, if Merrick Garland had promptly ordered a criminal investigation of Donald Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, everything might have been different. Would it?
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New books look at the January 6th Trial That Wasn’t and other failed prosecutions—and whether they might have changed history.
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In March, 2022, the people living in Lakeside Park Estates mobile-home park, in Hollywood, Florida, learned that they were being evicted. A new short film follows three women as they navigate the subsequent months of uncertainty and upheaval. Watch here.
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Charlotte Cooley’s short film follows three women as they navigate months of uncertainty after the shuttering of a Florida mobile-home park.
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The decline and fall of the New England Patriots during the past several years had been startling to witness. But there are signs that this year might be different, @louisahthomas writes. https://t.co/svJG9eujYN
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The team lately seems to have found that elusive balance of confidence and calm, accountability and community. Where did it come from?
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In 1997, when he was profiling Donald Trump, Mark Singer took a flight with the businessman and Ghislaine Maxwell. In our daily newsletter, Singer recalls a phone call the two made to a friend named Jeffrey.
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From the daily newsletter: remembering a trip to Mar-a-Lago.
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The American obsession with deadly game shows—both the fictional ones and the real-life simulacra—reflects a shift in the national mood to something increasingly zero-sum.
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Our obsession with deadly game shows—from “The Running Man” and “Squid Game” to MrBeast’s real-life reënactments—reflects a shift in the national mood to something increasingly zero-sum.
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The cover for last week’s issue—“Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez—is available for purchase. https://t.co/csWYXMSikn
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Canadian law enforcement suspected that the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist, was the result of a plot orchestrated by the Indian government, whose history of violence against Sikh activists stretches back four decades.
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A murder in Canada and an attempted one in New York suggest a transnational campaign of violence that has imperilled Indian diplomacy with the West.
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Twenty years ago today, members of the U.S. Marines killed 25 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. What really happened that day—and why was no one held accountable? Season 3 of our Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast, In the Dark, investigated. Listen here.
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The New Yorker investigative podcast examines the killings of twenty-four civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and asks why no one was held accountable for the crime.
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Play Shuffalo, our daily word-scramble challenge.
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Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
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What do political assassins want now? A new book examines the factors that drove Luigi Mangione to kill.
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Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them.
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Britain’s imbalanced economy is one of its greatest sores. The renowned economist Paul Collier advises the country’s struggling, post-industrial communities, like the one where he grew up.
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Paul Collier spent decades studying the poorest countries on earth. Now he advises struggling towns in the place where he grew up.
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An expert on the Middle East tells @IChotiner that the Saudi-American relationship “is very coöperative and sustained, and not only by state-to-state interests, but also by the interests of President Trump’s family and its business in the region.”
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After the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi leader became a pariah. He’s been slowly rehabilitated, and is now being celebrated in the Oval Office.
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From mini projector to an anti-technology app subscription, @chaykak breaks down the newest, strangest gadgets and apps to get your tech-savvy loved ones this holiday season.
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Our columnist on digital culture suggests technology—or anti-technology technology—to give this holiday season.
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