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Little Island Goes Big
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Summer Camp and Parenting Panics
Camps once sold a story about social improvement. Now we just can’t conceive of an unscheduled moment.
By Jay Caspian Kang
The Mini Crossword: Friday, May 24, 2024
The Iliad and the Odyssey, for two: five letters.
By Andy Kravis
Three London Shows Put a New Spin on Old Classics
Superb stagecraft illuminates Robert Ickes’s “Player Kings,” Benedict Andrews’s “The Cherry Orchard,” and Ian Rickson’s “London Tide.”
By Helen Shaw
There Is Literally Nothing Trump Can Say That Will Stop Republicans from Voting for Him
On Nikki Haley’s announcement that she’s backing her party’s “unhinged” nominee.
By Susan B. Glasser
Is the Biden Campaign Running on False Hope?
Most polls show Donald Trump leading in swing states, but the Democratic Party strategist Simon Rosenberg believes the President’s chances are better than the surveys suggest.
By Isaac Chotiner
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 23rd
“We all bought a town house together because we think society puts too much emphasis on fighting about money with your spouse and not enough on fighting about money with your friends.”
By Ellie Black
The Journalist Biography in an Age of Crisis
A memoir by Nicholas Kristof and a biography of Barbara Walters invoke halcyon days in the news business. What can we learn from their lives?
By Krithika Varagur
Things in the Nineties That Sparked My Love of Houseplants
The bonsai tree from “The Karate Kid,” Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy, and more.
By Cat Willett