2+ hour, 13+ min ago  (43+ words) The Atlantic With her first new novel in more than 20 years, Nancy Lemann returns, yet again, to New Orleans and its eccentricities. Read: Twenty years after the storm Read: Intensely southern and only faintly Jewish...

11+ hour, 40+ min ago  (192+ words) If a new legal opinion stands, Donald Trump will be on track to become one of the most poorly documented presidents ever. Legal opinions tend to be dry, wordy, and intentionally vague. One issued by the Justice Department's Office of…...

10+ hour, 1+ min ago  (104+ words) Does Trump seem crazy? Sure. Credible, not so much. The most important thing to understand about the "madman theory" of foreign policy is that it was designed by losers for losers. The madman strategy is for not-crazy leaders caught in…...

10+ hour, 1+ min ago  (140+ words) Color-blind and merit-based" now seems to be anything but. Perhaps the Trump administration is hoping the process works just as well in reverse. Adam Serwer: The war-crimes president Adam Harris: The only thing integrating America Another way to put it…...

13+ hour, 46+ min ago  (346+ words) Strength, courage, expertise, wonder: NASA's moon-mission crew has reset the bar for greatness. The tendrils of Christina Koch's flyaway hair swirled about in the gravityless cockpit of the Orion spacecraft, seeming to represent all of the untetheredness of the Artemis…...

13+ hour, 55+ min ago  (86+ words) The fear of commitment transforms The Drama from a romance into a horror story. The following contains spoilers for the film The Drama. Read: What we lost when we lost rom-coms Read: Why marriage survives The fear of commitment transforms…...

15+ hour, 5+ min ago  (81+ words) If you have a story to tell but not the skills to tell it, hire a professional. Read: Seven celebrities who published actually great memoirs Read: Modern communication's big open secret If you have a story to tell but not…...

14+ hour, 28+ min ago  (492+ words) The U. S. showed great tactical capabilities in the Iran war, but Iran emerged the winner at a strategic level. If these are indeed the conditions under which the war is concluded, the U. S. emerges from the conflict in worse strategic shape than…...

15+ hour, 18+ min ago  (794+ words) Fareed Zakaria and David Frum on whether they regret becoming American citizens. Plus: how 18 years of economic turmoil ushered in a new populist era, and a discussion of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. Then David is joined by CNN's Fareed…...

20+ hour, 24+ min ago  (200+ words) U. S. declarations of victory ring hollow. President Trump said he went to war to ensure that Iran never acquired a nuclear bomb. The war ended'for now, at least'with a demonstration that Tehran possesses an arguably more powerful weapon of deterrence against…...