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Shiite militiaman reached U.S. posing as Iraqi refugee
An Iraqi man admitted to immigration fraud last week, saying he cheated America’s refugee system by lying about his past as a member of an Iranian-funded Shiite militia in order…
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Sigh | Nawal Arjini
“Even the best spies have their time in the cold,” an previous undercover agent tells his grandson. They’re sitting by the fireplace in an episode of Apple TV’s Sluggish Horses, tailored…
Dangerous, Ephemeral, Revolutionary Prints | Claudio Lomnitz
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork owes its extraordinary assortment of Mexican prints…
The Public Health Risks of Warming Groundwater Under Cities, According to Author Greg Brick
When the French explorer Joseph Nicollet visited what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota,…
On Leverett Pond | Christopher Benfey
A freewheeling spirit runs via the historical past of Leverett, Massachusetts, which…
Syria: The Jail Gates Thrown Open | Stefan Tarnowski
As Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) pushed south from Idlib Province, the rebels’…
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Profession Justice Division officers reassigned to completely different positions: studies
The U.S. Division of Justice (DOJ) reportedly reassigned a number…
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The Ladies She Left Behind | Scott W. Stern
Early in 1938, a girl named Addie Odear in Lexington, Kentucky, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt a letter. Interesting to the primary…
The Bliss and the Dangers | Daphne Merkin
On the public sale homes the predatory collectors come and go, speaking of resale costs excessive and low. How a…
Forward of the Diminishing World | Sarah Schulman
“Why does somebody create an image of anything?” —Hartley Neel “Art could be called ‘the search.’” —Alice Neel A witness…
Mode for Joe | Andrew Katzenstein
Was the tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson pondering of the movie Black Narcissus (1947) when he wrote a music of that…
Desert Visions | Forrest Gander
I used to be born or given to the sunshine, because the largely Hispanic townspeople would say, within the impoverished…
Succumbing to Spectacle | Jed Perl
There isn't any query that “Jenny Holzer: Light Line,” presently on the Guggenheim, is a spectacle. Holzer’s LED show, along…
Concern and Pleasure in Chicago | Fintan O’Toole
As we stood on the gradual line to enter the safe zone across the United Heart in Chicago, an indignant…
‘An Ass-Backward Sherlock Holmes’ | J. W. McCormack
Tv’s finest jokes flip hierarchies upside-down. In some instances ghoulish magnificence requirements are handled as peculiar, like when Morticia Addams…
Three Sorts of Solar | David Levi Strauss
Laura Lee: Kansas was all golden and smelled like sunshine. Josey Wales: Yeah, nicely, I all the time heard there…
Taking the Joke Additional | Ian Frazier
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ian Frazier “Weird,” wrote Ian Frazier for the NYR On-line on August 13, “ Walz’s now…