At the time of his speech at Riverside Church, King had come to see war, poverty, and racism as interrelated; taking on one necessarily meant confronting the others.PHOTOGRAPH BY AMERICAN STOCK / GETTY Fifty years ago, John Lewis, the civil-rights activist and current congressman from Georgia, was living in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, in a studio on Twenty-first Street. On April 4, 1967
President Trump’s tweets exemplify a fairly basic but often highly effective rhetorical maneuver—the diversionary reverse accusation.PHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERS Between six and six-thirty this morning, the President of the United States, who had returned to his Mar-a-Lago estate, in Florida, unleashed a series of tweets accusing his predecessor of tapping his phones just before Election
COURTESY GEORGE W. BUSH FROM “PORTRAITS OF COURAGE” (CROWN, 2017) George W. Bush looms small in memory. The Presidency fit him like grownup clothes on a toddler. He made, or haplessly fronted for, some execrable decisions, but hating him took conscious effort. The aircraft-carrier landing was kind of cute, if you squinted your conscience. “Heckuva job, Brownie” was guileless to a festering fault.
The D.N.C. hacks, many analysts believe, were just a skirmish in a larger war against Western institutions and alliances.Illustration by Christoph Niemann 1. Soft TargetsOn April 12, 1982, Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the K.G.B., ordered foreign-intelligence operatives to carry out “active measures”—aktivniye meropriyatiya—against the reëlection campaign of President Ronald Reagan. Unlike classi
For centuries, adventurers have searched for evidence of a lost civilization in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil. Many of them have been swallowed up by the “green hell” of the Amazonian rain forest—which has been described as “the last great blank space in the world.”Illustration by Jacques De Loustal In the summer of 1996, rains flooded the Amazon, rendering it virtually impenetrable. Bridges we
How an Osage Indian family became the prime target of one of the most sinister crimes in American history. In the early twentieth century, the members of the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world, after oil was discovered under their reservation, in Oklahoma. Then they began to be mysteriously murdered off. In 1923, after the death toll reached more than two dozen, the cas
Cold Open: It’s set in a normal American house in 2017. Gold walls, gold doors, gold everything. Normal house. The family is beautiful. Nice-looking mom, nice-looking dad, hot kids. Dad tells his family he got fired. Job went to China. This happens. Mom tells family she also got fired. Job went to Mexico. Happens all the time. One kid says, “Thanks, Obama!” Big laughs. Huge laughs. Obama himself c
Henry Rousso, an expert on the history of Vichy France, was detained by U.S. immigration officials while travelling to a conference in Texas.PHOTOGRAPH BY NATACHA NISIC Henry Rousso, a historian of Vichy France, had a peculiar experience while travelling from Paris to Houston last week. At an immigration window in George Bush International Airport, he reported that he was in town to give a keynote
Denzel Washington, addressed from the Academy Awards stage by Casey Affleck, the Best Actor winner, looked back with an expression that was unsmiling and unforgiving.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRISTOPHER POLK / GETTY Black people have a knack for causing trouble. Even when they win, there’s confusion. But the confusion can inspire a redemptive feeling, too. When the camera showed the well-heeled mayhem that f
The bizarre finale to Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony brought to mind the theory—far from a joke—that humanity is living in a computer simulation gone haywire.PHOTOGRAPH BY EDDY CHEN / ABC VIA GETTY Last night’s Oscars bizarreness was not just bizarre but bizarre in a way that is typical of this entirely bizarre time. The rhythm of the yes-they-won-oh-my-God-no-they-didn’t event, with “La La Land”
More than a hundred and fifty gravestones were recently vandalized at Chesed Shel Emeth, a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT COHEN / ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH VIA AP On Monday, more than a hundred and fifty gravestones were found damaged or toppled at a historic Jewish cemetery near St. Louis. As soon as she heard the news, Karen Aroesty drove to the cemetery. Many people she knew ar
In response to #OscarsSoWhite, some members were shifted to “emeritus status.”Illustration by Golden Cosmos The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences occupies a squat nineteen-seventies building on Wilshire Boulevard, surrounded by car dealerships. On January 14th of last year, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy’s president, arrived at 2:30 A.M., several hours before she was to announce the ei
George W. Bush: America, If You Remember Me as an O.K. President, I’ll Trap Trump in One of My Paintings America, in the years since my Presidency, I've spent much of my time painting. In fact, I've spent countless hours in front of the easel, putting paint to canvas—that's what painting is. If I'm not painting, I'm sleeping, enjoying time with my family, or dabbling in the dark arts. You heard me
A seventeenth-century illustration for Rumi’s epic poem “Masnavi.” Rumi is often called a mystic, a saint, an enlightened man. He is less frequently described as a Muslim.PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM A couple of years ago, when Coldplay’s Chris Martin was going through a divorce from the actress Gwyneth Paltrow and feeling down, a friend gave him a book to lift his spirits. It was a
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