Impeach Donald Trump
Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs.
March 2019
In This Issue
Sexual-misconduct allegations against the Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer, the scientists rethinking animal cognition, the politics of disgust, and how Russian kleptocracy came to America. Plus Alfonso Cuarón’s feminist oeuvre, active-shooter drills’ damaging effects on children, how humans tamed themselves, FDR and Hoover’s fight over big government, and more.
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Features
Getty / Life on White A Journey Into the Animal Mind
What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world
Illustration WG600; Vianney Le Caer / Invision / AP; Bret Skopek; United Archives / Alamy ‘Nobody Is Going to Believe You’
The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories.
Jeff Brown Liberals and Conservatives React in Wildly Different Ways to Repulsive Pictures
To a surprising degree, our political beliefs may derive from a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical revulsion.
Corey Brickley Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America
When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost.
Dispatches
Edmon De Haro Active-Shooter Drills Are Tragically Misguided
There’s scant evidence that they’re effective. They can, however, be psychologically damaging—and they reflect a dismaying view of childhood.
James Graham Workplace Theft Is on the Rise
As the line between work and home blurs, office supplies attract sticky fingers.
John Cuneo Roma Is the Latest Entry in Alfonso Cuarón’s Feminist Oeuvre
The director discusses the absence of men in his early life and his movies.
Esther Aarts The Sad Story of a Rare Cat and Its Loyal Parasite
We had scarcely discovered the parasite Felicola isidoroi when it vanished forever.
Todd St. John Why Ford Hired a Furniture Maker as CEO
In the car of the future, you may care more about how the driver’s seat swivels than how the engine purrs.
Joe McKendry Sears Once Sold Heroin
A very short book excerpt
The Culture File
Jack Mitchell / Getty Wes Anderson Is Under Edward Gorey’s Spell
He was a writer-artist ahead of his time, but Tim Burton, Lemony Snicket, and American culture have finally caught up.
Antoine Maillard A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males.
Denise Nestor John Roberts’s Biggest Test Is Yet to Come
The chief justice writes fiercely conservative opinions, yet champions the Court’s political independence. How will he respond to a constitutional crisis?
Christian Northeast The Bitter Origins of the Fight Over Big Government
What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us
Najeebah Al-Ghadban Hollywood’s Secret History of Sexuality
David Thomson’s fascinating, and frustrating, tour of gay subversion and female oppression in American movies
Viking What Medical School Doesn’t Teach About Death
A palliative-care doctor learns the language of suffering and the limits of medical control.
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