QUOTATION OF THE DAY
“They cannot grieve, they cannot remarry, they cannot sell property, the family has lost their breadwinner.” FADWA MAHMOUD, the wife of a Syrian dissident who disappeared in 2012, describing the plight of Syrian women whose loved ones are among the 100,000 detained or missing. |
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Harlem’s French Renaissance
By JOEL DREYFUSS
A small Francophile community, lured by Harlem’s sense of community and storied history, has sprung up, and along with it have come French restaurants. |
Pursuits
In Brno, Drinks for Morning, Noon and Night
By EVAN RAIL
A whirlwind tour of the drinks scene in the Czech Republic’s second city. |
36 Hours
36 Hours in Baltimore
By NELL McSHANE WULFHART
Charm City has raised the charm quotient, with hip cocktail bars, coffeehouses and a quirky historic appeal. |
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Feature
The Return of Lorde
By JONAH WEINER
Four years after her debut album, the pop prodigy is back with a testimonial to heartbreak and solitude. |
Feature
Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck
By WILLY STALEY
From “Idiocracy” to “Silicon Valley,” the writer and director has established himself as America’s foremost chronicler of its own self-destructive tendencies. |
Feature
Inside Turkey’s Purge
By SUZY HANSEN
As the ruling party expands the ranks of its enemies, life in a fragile democracy becomes stranger and stranger. |
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Sunday Review
Op-Ed Columnist
Steve Bannon Was Doomed
By FRANK BRUNI
Woe to the Washington aide unschooled in self-effacement. |
Op-Ed Columnist
Save the Mainline
By ROSS DOUTHAT
Why America needs its ex-Protestants to go back to church. |
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ON THIS DAY
On April 16, 1947, America’s worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas, when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions and resulting fires killed more than 500 people and left 200 others missing.
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