The View from Here
Welcome to Toronto, the West’s newest sanctuary city—for Americans
The View from Here
The Founding Fathers assumed the president’s power to pardon would be exercised with restraint. They didn’t figure on Donald Trump
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The oligarchs are back in town and hunting for swanky real estate, lured by Trump’s laissez-faire attitude toward corruption and money-laundering
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A 1960s hoax by liberal luminaries including E. L. Doctorow fueled the conspiracy theories that Trump has relied on his entire political career
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The Anti-Defamation League should think twice before cheering Trump’s crackdown on anti-Zionists
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A New York City pediatric infectious-diseases doctor never thought he’d see a vicious resurgence of measles, an entirely preventable illness, in his lifetime. He was wrong
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Is Donald Trump doing a “Reverse-Nixon”? (It’s even worse than it sounds)
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The anti-woke intelligentsia applauded Trump’s attacks on D.E.I. What they got instead is the MAGA brand of affirmative action
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Before he took a chain saw to government spending, Elon Musk used taxpayer funds to turn a failing business into a trillion-dollar company
The Apostate
Trump’s dead-eyed hatchet man in the Justice Department, Emil Bove III, has attacked the very office that taught him the law—and betrayed the ideals he once espoused
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Trump’s dismantling of the Justice Department’s anti-corruption units is a going-out-of-business bonanza for dictators, kleptocrats, crooked officials, and organized-crime leaders
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Trump’s model of political leadership? A cigar-chomping, baseball-bat-swinging, mobbed-up Brooklyn boss
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By towing the crypto line—and cashing in himself—Donald Trump has inadvertently revealed the industry’s true face. And it’s not pretty
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Disenchantment with D.E.I. was a boon for Trump. But will his crusade against wokeness repel recent MAGA converts?
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Who could have foreseen the destruction wrought by the wildfires in Los Angeles? Benjamin Franklin, for one
Red Between the Lines
There are no official censorship laws in Russia—but that doesn’t stop writers from being ostracized, fined, or arrested
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An architect who lost his Malibu masterpiece in the 2018 Woolsey Fire wants Los Angeles to rebuild, but in a radically new way
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Trying out for the Actors Studio was a trial by fire. But holding screen tests for porn films was no breeze, either
The Attention Whore of the Year Awards
Elon? Tucker? Joe? Whom did you choose as the biggest braggart and blowhard of 2024?
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Take it from a good person: when it comes to throwing dinner parties—and dealing with uninvited guests—everyone could benefit from being bad
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Rich Cohen had always felt ambivalent about his name—until he attended a convention of Richard Cohens
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America’s rightward shift is not unique. Countries around the world, from Georgia to South Korea, are playing Fascist whack-a-mole
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Would a time machine have helped thwart Trump’s re-election?
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Bootlegging, drug dealing, Airbnb-ing. Diplomats abandoned by their countries turn to unusual trades to keep the consular lights burning
