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Daily Comment
Obama Confronts an Endless Warby Jane Mayer
The President’s speech led the debate on counterterrorism beyond where even most Democrats have dared to go…
Elements
Big Government
for Big Disastersby Eric Klinenberg
How investments in weather-forecasting technology and emergency-alert programs saved lives in Moore, Oklahoma.
Page-Turner
Denouncing
the Canonby Sam Sacks
Once an author is a classic, can that status be revoked?
Pop Music
Daft Punk,
Back to Earthby Sasha Frere-Jones
The duo’s new album, “Random Access Memories,” raises a radical question: Does good music need to be good?
News Desk
Blood in Woolwichby Anthony Lane
The footage of the killing in London is utterly disorientating in its clamping together of barbarism and urban normality…
The Latest
5/25 4:52 PM
Sergio Garcia and the Lifespan of an Offensive Remark
Part of Garcia’s “sick feeling” must surely, if we are to take him at his word, stem from his regret at
5/25 1:54 PM
Memorials to a Forgotten World War
Traumatized as Americans were by the First World War and the loss of nearly a hundred and seventeen thousand of its
5/25 12:04 PM
Backblogged: Our Five Favorite Sentences of the Week
The Oklahoma sky, especially in April and May, behaved like an otherwise affable companion who, literally out of the blue, transforms
5/25 10:00 AM
Weekend Reading: Public-Health Crises, Surfer Girls
This week, Washingtonian published an ambitious investigation titled “Children Are Dying,” in which Alexandra Robbins, a former editorial assistant at this
5/24 7:33 PM
“When Night Falls” and “Django Unchained”: Movie Censorship in China
I’ve never been to the Cannes Film Festival, and this year I regret missing it—judging from the word of critics whose
5/24 7:30 PM
A Great Cup of Coffee
This weekend, many of the world’s leading coffee professionals are in Australia, for the Melbourne International Coffee Expo.
5/24 7:08 PM
A Town Plagued by Water
Waterborne destruction has visited Toms River before, albeit via less conspicuous channels…
Editors’ Choice
On Television
A Liberace
Love Storyby Emily Nussbaum
Steven Soderbergh’s homage to the flamboyant pianist.
