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Debug bureaucracy
Akash Bobba’s Hindu parents came to New Jersey from India after his father, Jay, secured an H-1B visa. Akash wrote artificial intelligence models for Meta when he…
February 12, 2025
Explore racial politics, Trump TV, U.S.-India ties, China, Gaza, Musk, DOGE, and The Brutalist—a must-read on power, policy, and culture in this week's magazine
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Trump wants quick solution to Middle East instability
JERUSALEM — Anyone who believes that President Donald Trump will give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a free hand to reestablish settlements in Gaza, annex the West Bank,…
Economy
For federal employees, remote work ought to be exception, not rule
Over at the group therapy session that is Slate magazine’s advice column, the latest liberal to lament their financial woes whines that after finally becoming a first-time…
Magazine
Dwelling with Patrick Modiano
In a marvelous phrase, Erich Heller credited Franz Kafka with having achieved “the most obscure lucidity in the history of literature.” Heller’s witty oxymoron could be applied…
Magazine
Too ecumenical?
“On most Sundays,” the rector of an Episcopal church told me last summer with a smile, “most of my congregation is pretty staunchly Episcopalian. But every now…
Magazine
A miracle drink
In the wake of the tragic crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, D.C., and the Learjet 55 crash in…
Entertainment
The ambitious and doomed The Brutalist
Some kinds of creativity are harder to capture on camera than others. Eureka moments are fairly easy to present in music or occasionally in art. Architecture can…
Entertainment
The law of rule
What is it about the Wild West that keeps us coming back for more? Surely the popular appeal of the Western, on the page, on the stage,…
Magazine
Britain’s conservative second world war
Although always popular, revisionist history is an area fraught with pitfalls. This is because, fundamentally, most historians are not idiots, and the standard version of history is…
Magazine
Get thee from a nunnery: Review of ‘Stone Yard Devotional’ by Charlotte Wood
Nuns, Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote in her historical novel The Corner That Held Them, set in a 14th-century English convent, are “beings who are, in any case,…