admin Democratic Schadenfreude and the Latino Vote
Donald Trump’s once strong approval rating among Latinos has collapsed, but Democrats can’t count on their support. Jack Herrera on…
Rope-a-Dope
Are the Enhanced Games an existential threat to fairness or a cure for death? Zach Helfand reports.
Voting Rights, Updated
Shouts & Murmurs by Paul Rudnick: To run for office in New York, you must play pickleball with the guy…
New York Is a Pickle Kind of Town
The Dutch authors of a new book, “The Pickled City: The Story of New York Pickles,” stop by the brined-delicacy…
Meet the Minion-Maker
Off the release of “Minions & Monsters,” the director Pierre Coffin reflects on creating the language of Minionese, partly inspired…
Madonna Wants to Take You There
The pop star launched her new album, “Confessions II,” at a party in London, complete with watery drinks and nostalgic…
The Met Turns Orientalism Inside Out
Zachary Fine reviews “Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy,” an exhibit that hinges largely on the work of Jean-Léon Gérôme and…
Donald Trump’s Needless War with Iran Is His Biggest Economic Blunder
Trump was elected largely because of the affordability crisis. But, since reëntering the White House, he has only accentuated the…
Locked Away
On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of…
The Remaking of Lindsey Graham
Ruth Marcus on the South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who has died, at the age of seventy-one.