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Did Scott Walker and Donald Trump Deal Away the Governor’s Race to Foxconn?
As the public has become aware of the spiraling costs associated with building a new Foxconn plant in Wisconsin, the deal has become something of a political liability for the state’s governor.
Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz in the Final Stretch of the Texas Senate Race
In the race for Senate in Texas, O’Rourke has been shuttling across the state in a Dodge Grand Caravan, taking on both Cruz and President Trump.
If Jeff Bezos Makes Washington the Second Headquarters of Amazon
The benefits of being chosen are obvious, but potential downsides are, too.
Local Concerns and National Implications in New York’s Nineteenth District
In the state’s most closely fought congressional race, small-town good will and a coarsening national dialogue are in open conflict.
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Spotlight
Britain’s Austerity Has Officially Ended—and Yet It’s Still Going
Brexit has swamped British politics since 2016, but it is austerity that has informed people’s daily, meagre experience of the state.
Katie Porter’s Quest to Turn Orange County, California, Blue
The race in California’s Forty-fifth Congressional District is a test of how far left some Republican and Independent voters may lean in order to avoid leaving Trump unimpeded for two more years.
After Khashoggi’s Murder, Saudi Arabia Enters a Dangerous Period
Mohammed bin Salman and his cohorts in Riyadh seem utterly determined to bury the truth.
How a Woman Becomes a Lake
What can reading Ovid, in these days of fear and sadness, reveal about the mythology of rape as heroic conquest and our collective desire for transformation?
Julia Roberts in the Heavy Weather of a Late-Capitalist Dystopia
The new series, on Amazon, gives Roberts a superb role that spans two different time lines—one in a conspiracy thriller and the other in a paranoid noir.
Trump’s Dangerous Midterm Musings
The President is not subtle about the racial aspects of this appeal to fear.
The Latest
In a New Velvet Underground Exhibition, a Gritty Subculture Meets the Corporate Moment
“The Velvet Underground Experience” insists on marrying the sponsored with the obscure, as if presenting the two side by side can make them compatible.
How to Get Enough Physical Affection if You’re Single
Always sit between two manspreaders in public, take up M.M.A. fighting, and other suggestions.
Will Tom Steyer’s Alliance with the Democratic Party Survive the Midterms?
The problem of the righteous billionaire is relatively new for Democrats, and they are still discovering its complications.
Simone Biles Dominates at the Gymnastics World Championships, Even When She Falls
Despite a series of setbacks at the World Championships, Biles became the first female gymnast in history to win four world all-around gold medals.
What to Stream This Weekend: Ten Farewell FilmStruck Films
I’d be remiss not to share some of these enthusiasm-stoking trance-breakers for the common good.
Video
26.2 Miles of Emotion
Runners from all over the world participate in the New York City Marathon to compete and experience the dramatic highs and lows.
Daily Cartoon
Photo Booth
How Hip-Hop Learned to Pose for the Camera
The new photography book “Contact High” provides a fascinating prehistory of our present, a glimpse into a time when nobody quite knew where hip-hop could go.
In This Week’s Issue
Probing “Frankenstein” ’s Legacy Through Iconic Memorabilia
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates Mary Shelley and her monster in the exhibition “It’s Alive!,” co-organized with the New York Public Library.
Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters
A new volume of her correspondence is suffused with a sense of foreboding—portents of the looming tragedy that has come to define the poet’s legacy.
The Draper-Wolff Clan Gets a Canine Co-Star
The show-biz family who made “Stella’s Last Weekend” visits the Washington Square Park dog run.
America’s Other Family-Separation Crisis
Sending a mother to prison can have a devastating effect on her children. Why, then, do we lock so many women up?
Our Columnists
What the Polls Show in the Run-Up to the Midterm Elections
Trends point to a balance of power on Capitol Hill for the next couple of years—and the likelihood of legislative gridlock.
After Angela Merkel, Who Will Lead Germany—and Europe?
Merkel, who announced that she is stepping down from her party’s leadership, would like to stay on as Chancellor until 2021, but she may be pushed out sooner.
Trump, Birthright Citizenship, and the Mainstreaming of Unimaginable Ideas
Two years after claiming, obsessively and falsely, that millions of “illegal immigrants” voted in the Presidential election, Trump is taking steps to make immigrant votes illegal.
NBC’s Firing of Megyn Kelly Is as Cynical as Her Hiring Was
The network chairman’s condemnation of Kelly’s comments about dressing in blackface hardly obscures the fact that her dismissal was decided not by morality but by the market.
Americans Would Feel Safer If a Huge Caravan of Angry White Men Left the Country
In an indication of just how much support the proposal has, many Americans said that they would personally contribute gas money to help get the caravan on its way.
“The Other Side of the Wind,” a Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece
The recently completed film dramatizes Welles’s own struggle, highlights the director’s extraordinary dramatic imagination, and is, for better and for worse, uncannily prescient.
Podcasts
The Rhetoric and the Reality of the Migrant Caravan, and the Return of Derek Smalls
A reporter who spent a week with the migrant caravan in Mexico describes the reality on the ground. And the Spinal Tap bassist makes his solo début.
