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The View from Here Since the Cold War, the U.S. has had doomsday plans for saving itself. But Trump proves that the greatest threat comes from within

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Shot in the Dark Will public shaming deter the 1 percent from cutting the line for the coronavirus vaccine?

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On Thin Ice Confessions of a hockey dad

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Small Talk
“Yes, yes, we love you, too. What’s your Netflix password?”

Divorce, Oligarch-Style The ex-wife of an oil-and-gas baron goes to the mattresses to get hold of her $600 million settlement

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Did You Hear About … ? Curious news about these strange days

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What If … Peter Morgan’s Sequel to The Crown Were The Trump?

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#NeverLeaving Trump’s not the first loser to be dragged kicking and screaming from high office. A century ago, it was a New York City Hall janitor who just wouldn’t let go

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Night and Day The centenarian Eddie Jaku, who survived Kristallnacht and Auschwitz, considers himself “the happiest man on Earth”

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The Duke of Substance Prince Harry offers a cure for climate change from his nine-bedroom mansion, in California

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Small Talk
“I prefer the sunset’s earlier, Impressionist work.”

Candice Bergen Is No Dummy What it’s like to work with Meryl Streep. And the man who turned her “to goo”

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No Secret Handshake Required The Freemasons go public (and put a price tag on it)

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Trump in Exile Where on earth can a defeated, disgraced president go when his White House stint is finished?

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Small Talk
“I just keep asking myself, ‘What are we not sniffing?’”

Home for the Holidays Art, ballet, operas, carols: a cultural guide to a holiday season spent socially distanced and (mostly) at home

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He Keeps 007 in Gear Good news: Ben Whishaw returns as Q in the new James Bond. Not good news: the film is still delayed

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Air Mail Jr.

Zeina Durra With Luxor, the British filmmaker brings romance to the ruins of the Egyptian Pharaohs

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Small Talk
“Remember, son: give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to write search-engine-optimized content, and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Mouton Rothschild Labels Itself as Chinese-Friendly The Bordeaux vineyard’s 2018 vintage will speak to the world’s biggest market for French wine

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Open Book

The Female Gaze Alongside a show at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery, a book re-evaluates the history of photography through the lens of the New Woman

Books

Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

by Wolfram Eilenberger
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The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist

by Anthony M. Amore
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The High-Society Inventor Peter Florjancic’s life may have been his best creation

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Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley

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Columnists

Cazzie David Emma Freud Walter Isaacson
Pico Iyer Rachel Johnson John Lahr
Douglas McGrath Richard David Story James Wolcott

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Lili Anolik Joseph Bullmore William D. Cohan Rich Cohen Stuart Heritage George Kalogerakis Sam Kashner Alexandra Marshall

International Editor

Isabelle Harvie-Watt

London Editor

Bridget Arsenault

Communications Director

Anna Bradlee

Cartoon Editor

Bob Mankoff

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Adam Nadler

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H. Scott Jolley

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Roxy Solis Gasper Tringale-White Jenna Kim

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Bill Keenan

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Emily Davis

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Michael Pescuma

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Marc Leyer

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Madeline Spates

Issue No. 74
December 12, 2020
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Issue No. 74
December 12, 2020

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