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Representative Escobar, who represents El Paso, Texas, where Saturday's shooting occurred, discusses her frustration with Republican politicians.http://nyer.cm/zhALyuQ 

Josh Begley’s short film “Best of Luck with the Wall” shows all 1,954 miles of the border between the United States and Mexico in six mesmerizing minutes.http://nyer.cm/wAbZ9Ia 

The sixteenth-century poet Anne Vaughan Lock may have been the first writer to publish a sonnet cycle in English.http://nyer.cm/8h3qu7b 

.@frynaomifry attempts to answer a question she often finds herself asking: Who does Boris Johnson remind her of, exactly?http://nyer.cm/nXe70xv 

Privately, doctors feel despair about their appalling working conditions and the deteriorating doctor-patient relationship. But there have been no marches on Washington, no picket lines, no social-media campaigns. Why not?http://nyer.cm/qqoLI3V 

In this week’s crossword, 44 Down: Good to Sartre?http://nyer.cm/FKKLeXh 

The behavior of the U.S. bat population, whose ecological services are worth as much as twenty billion dollars annually, is changing in response to climate change.http://nyer.cm/oWkW4F0 

In his photo project “Temporarily Censored Home,” Guanyu Xu secretly transformed the home of his traditionally minded parents into a brazen art installation.http://nyer.cm/cTLhfSS 

From 2012, Jill Lepore on how America came to have the most powerfully armed civilian population in the world.http://nyer.cm/b6CT2md 

“Neither of Ann’s children spoke a word to Olive. Not a ‘thank you’ or a ‘please’—not one word did they say. She thought they were horrible children.” A new story about Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.http://nyer.cm/NUMNdJw 

White-supremacist terrorism is nothing new, but this sickeningly specific instantiation of it—lone shooter, assault rifle, online manifesto, a link to a live stream—appears to be contagious.http://nyer.cm/Sl4RJUX 

P. T. Barnum became one of the most celebrated men in America not despite his bigotry and duplicity, his flimflamming and self-dealing, but because of them.http://nyer.cm/dlf1qLv 

As physicists work to understand the material content of the universe—particles, dark matter, the big bang—their work is shadowed by metaphysical questions about the very nature of reality.http://nyer.cm/BawEJ3k 

Guns killed nearly forty thousand people in the United States last year. The right to go to Walmart, or to a food festival, or to church, or to a synagogue, or to school, without fear of being shot, is eminently worth fighting for.http://nyer.cm/08k4MML 

Herman Melville destroyed nearly all of his letters, burned his manuscripts, and shied from photographers. But his beloved farm, and the books he wrote there, offer some insight into his life.http://nyer.cm/FrJgoYO 

The stupefying regularity of mass killings can inspire a sense of futility, even as the evidence suggests that the political prospects for gun control are shifting.http://nyer.cm/YuVTpCn 

If Georges Perec took pride in not repeating himself, it did not stop him from returning to the same obsessions: police states, citizens going missing, organized brutality, human fragility.http://nyer.cm/DKcG0lr 

What is money? From where does it derive its value? As new cryptocurrencies surface, we ask the same questions we contemplated when money was first created.http://nyer.cm/4DOgPsR