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Paid article The Scrapbook
THE SCRAPBOOK The Dulcet Tones of Bernie The Scrapbook stopped caring about the Grammys ages ago. Like all entertainment awards, they’re not much a measure of talent. Long ago they devolved into...
Paid article Casual
SKINNER, DAVID
CASUAL One Man’s Trash . . . It was Big Trash Day in my neighborhood. Notices had gone out that the city’s garbage trucks would pick up practically anything you put on the curb. Busted...
Paid article EditorialS
EDITORIALS Abolish the CFPB £ ~W" f we’re going to make the investments we need,” I remarked President-elect Barack Obama in 2008, A “we must also be willing to shed the spending we don’t. . . ....
Paid article Chuck Grassley's Blue-Slip Battle
BARNES, FRED
Chuck Grassley’s Blue-Slip Battle Playing the long game on judicial nominations. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He has a reputation for being fair-minded....
Paid article To Be Sure, Nazis Are Evil
FERGUSON, ANDREW
To Be Sure, Nazis Are Evil The New York Times’s needy readers. It’s not always easy to sympathize with reporters for the New York Times, because so many of them act like . . . how to put it? . ....
Paid article Boss or Bystander?
Lifhits, Jenna
Boss or Bystander? A jury finds Ahmed Abu Khatallah is no mastermind. £ f I \ he defendant is guilty as I sin,” said federal prosecu-L. tor Julieanne Himelstein. “And,” she added, “he is a...
Paid article Promises, Promises
SCHMITT, GARY
Promises, Promises What happened to the Trump military buildup? Donald Trump made a lot of promises when campaigning for president. To name just a few, he was going to build a wall along the...
Paid article A Less and Less Grand Coalition
Caldwell, Christopher
A Less and Less Grand Coalition Merkel and the Muslims. When the nationalistic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party swept into the national legislature with 13 percent of the vote in the fall, the...
Paid article Brazening It Out
Mccormack, John
Brazening It Out Despite everything, Roy Moore is ahead Henagar, Alabama Roy Moore—the Alabama GOP Senate candidate credibly accused of dating high-school-aged girls as a grown man, molesting a...
Paid article Shared Words
Millller, Stephen
Books ^Arts Shared Words The culture-making act of reading together. Some historians talk about a “reading revolution” in the middle of the 18th century, during which literacy rates rose and...
Paid article Glamorous Gardener
GREEN, STEPHANIE
B A Glamorous Gardener The flowers and fame of Bunny Mellon, Jackie Kennedy’s confidante. On the evening of President John E Kennedy’s assassination, Bunny Mellon arrived at the White House to...
Paid article Wind on Our Cheeks
Irmscher, Christoph
B A Wind on Our Cheeks Thoreau’s search for life lived truly. About two-thirds into Laura Dassow Walls’s extraordinary new biography of Henry David Thoreau, she relates an anecdote that tells us...
Paid article Russian Enigmas
WILSON, JOHN
B A Russian Enigmas ’Tis the season for Russophile reading. At this very moment, I trust, a novelist somewhere is trying to weave Russia’s election-year meddling into the stuff of fiction. (I...
Paid article Fighting Before the Footlights
NORDLINGER, JAY
B A Fighting Before the Footlights Opera as politics by other means. As a rule, I favor a strict separation between music and politics. Politics need not worm its way into every nook and cranny....
Paid article Prodigy's Last Years
Check, John
B A Prodigy’s Last Years Mozart’s music on the page and on the stage. When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was relieved of his duties in June 1781 as court organist to Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus...
Paid article Papal Postscript
Peters, Nathaniel
B A Papal Postscript What his biographer learned from time spent with John Paul II. In 1991, George Weigel arrived in Prague to research The Final Revolution, a book that told the story of Pope...
Paid article An Illuminating Look
FORBES, MALCOLM
B A An Illuminating Look A tantalizing tour of medieval manuscripts. In Umberto Eco’s medieval whodunit The Name of the Rose, the narrator, a Benedictine novice, comes to realize that “books...
Paid article Campaign Trailblazer
COST, JAY
B A Campaign Trailblazer The explorer who became the Republican party’s first presidential nominee. Ever since Theodore H. White’s The Making of the President 1960, book buyers have been treated...
Paid article Triumphant Tuesdays
MacLean, Emily
B A Triumphant Tuesdays The new ‘Smitten Kitchen’ cookbook promises to save your weeknights. When legendary editor Judith Jones returned stateside in the early 1950s after years of living in...
Paid article Fiction Roundup
Sacks, Sam
B A Fiction Roundup This year’s not-to-be-missed novels and stories. Fiction finds itself in a curious position in 2017, when the favored form of disparagement is to accuse opponents of peddling...
Paid article Parody
PARODY “Al Franken Apologizes (Again) After Being Accused of Groping (Again)” —News...
Issue Vol. 023 Issue 015 (December 18 2017)
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