May 24, 2017 connie dello buono The New Yorker News Wednesday, May 24, 2017 News Desk Trump’s Damning Responses to the Russia Investigation There is now significant evidence that the President has been trying to cover up something related to the F.B.I. investigation. We just don’t know what. BY RYAN LIZZA News Desk Is the Islamic State Strong or Weak? Discrepancies in ISIS’s claim of responsibility for the bombing have spurred speculation about the organization’s command of foreign operations. BY ROBIN WRIGHT John Cassidy The Trump Administration’s Budget Charade This isn’t serious accounting, it’s cooking the books to achieve an unattainable goal: huge tax cuts and a balanced budget. BY JOHN CASSIDY Annals of Geology The World Is Running Out of Sand It’s one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think. BY DAVID OWEN PAID POST “An utterly enchanting little masterpiece…”* “Reading this book is like reading all of Proust in just under two hundred pages.” —Andrew Solomon* News Desk Manchester Gets the Poem It Needs Tony Walsh wrote “This Is the Place” in 2015, for the twentieth birthday of the Manchester Arena, where a bomb went off on Monday. BY ED CAESAR Daily Comment Amid the Chaos, Trump’s Appointees Push His Agenda The executive branch is a huge bureaucracy, which lumbers forward, pushing the incumbent’s policies, regardless of the situation in the White House. BY JEFFREY TOOBIN News Desk What Roger Ailes Figured Out Part of the genius of Fox News was its ability to incite outrage from nonpartisan media outlets, which only reinforced the network’s message. BY KELEFA SANNEH Books Czeslaw Milosz’s Battle for Truth Having experienced both Nazi and Communist rule, Poland’s great exile poet arrived at a unique blend of skepticism and sincerity. BY ADAM KIRSCH Daily Shouts Smart Things I Have Done While You Were Watching Sportsball Silently congratulated myself in Trader Joe’s after realizing that I didn’t know who won the most recent N.B.A. Finals. BY RIVER CLEGG Share this:TwitterFacebookLinkedInPrintEmailGooglePocketPinterestTumblrRedditLike this:Like Loading...
