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From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces by Calvin Tomkins on artists, including Cindy Sherman, Chris Ofili, Georgia O’Keefe, Philippe Petit, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and David Adjaye.

Both situations stem from the President’s apparent willingness to accept political favors from foreign leaders, and his eagerness to do Putin’s bidding, Jeffrey Toobin writes.

Isaac Chotiner interviews the economist, philosopher, and public intellectual Amartya Sen about his boyhood in pre-independence India, his fears and hopes for Indian democracy, and why contemporary politics hasn’t led him toward fatalism.

Quick: when you think of Zappos, what do you think of? My mind goes straight to footwear. But Zappos is so much more than a place to grab running shoes or sandals at prices you feel good about. They have a ton of clothing pieces to choose from, as well. And most importantly, they’ve launched a standalone section to give you the best experience while shopping for something a lot of people hate shopping for: denim.

Sometimes, between fighting monsters or zombies with swords or guns or whatever, you want to kick back and enjoy a different type of challenge in a video game. Fishing mini-games bring bite-sized blasts of outdoorsmanship to our adventures, and while some players hate them, I’ve found there’s fun to be had when fishing’s done right. Here’s a list of some of the best. More »

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Doug Bandow

Security, Middle East

The biggest.

Key Point: Another major land war would be a strategic blunder on a scale worse than Iraq.

Sixteen years ago, the George W. Bush administration manipulated intelligence to scare the public into backing an aggressive war against Iraq. The smoking gun mushroom clouds that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice warned against didn’t exist, but the invasion long desired by neoconservatives and other hawks proceeded. Liberated... Читать дальше...

The police exhumed all the bodies for a scientific probe.

Tickets for the concert had been sold out.

Rotherham 4-0 Coventry | City's unbeaten league campaign came to a shuddering halt as Mark Robins' men were thrashed 4-0 at the New York Stadium.

LABOUR’S plot to scrap private schools and integrate them into the state sector is the “most damaging policy idea thought up by Jeremy Corbyn to date”, with critics attacking the party for waging a “communist class war” that could cost UK taxpayers £7.5billion each year.

Western governors are disappointed that the U.S. Department of Energy didn't consult their states' nuclear waste experts before releasing a five-year plan for a nuclear waste facility in New Mexico ...

U.S. health officials continue to look for patterns in the hundreds of serious lung injuries reported in people who use electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices ...

Nowadays, consumers shop online for just about everything. So you've likely experienced the stinging disappointment when a TV, piece of furniture or something else you ordered finally arrives on your doorstep — damaged ...

On a normal car ride, Grace the brown-white Chihuahua might have been happily "singing" along in traffic with her owner, Ellen Ross. But this wasn't a normal ride ...

It appears that Republican members of Congress will continue their silence regarding the whistleblower contretemps because President Donald Trump is doing a fine job of defending himself via Twitter.

Just as former President Richard Nixon indicted himself with his White House tapes, now President Donald Trump has indicted himself with his release of the rough transcript of his telephone call with the Ukraine president.

Two years have now gone by since the mass shooting in Las Vegas. So what has been achieved since that horrifying night?

President Donald Trump would have American workers believe he is their champion. But when it comes to protecting them from workplace accidents, nothing could be further from the truth.

Recreational marijuana isn’t legal at the federal level, meaning there are no federal standards or regulations for approving cannabis products for sale. That leaves policymaking up to each state.

A controversial initiative that has divided equine advocates and public land stakeholders on how to best manage wild horse populations is making headway ...