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How to Build an Autocracy
The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism. (Read this article in Chinese.)
President Trump’s autocratic potential, a social-media mom’s empire, blue cities in red states, and luxury doomsday bunkers. Plus, what sexuality looked like in the Victorian era, how to fix Hollywood, and more.
The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism. (Read this article in Chinese.)
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Fox News’s former star has downplayed her full role in an ugly election.
How the Russian president became the ideological hero of nationalists everywhere
The enviable, highly profitable life of Amber Fillerup Clark, perfect mother and social-media influencer
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The case against human drivers
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By all accounts, local drivers have become more cautious and mannerly since volunteer cebritas started directing traffic.
How the descendants of Siri and Alexa could change our daily lives, thoughts, and relationships
Texas’s Trident Lakes is the latest entry in a booming market for luxury bunkers.
A very short book excerpt
From bohemian to radical to Catholic activist, Dorothy Day devoted her life to the poor, however unlovable.
Ghosts and schmaltz haunt George Saunders’s first novel.
The discreet, disorienting passions of the Victorian era
Awestruck visions of the tech industry have become less convincing than ever.
The journalist Ariel Levy has the rare gift of seeing herself with fierce, unforgiving clarity, and deploys prose to match in her memoir.
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A big question
A poem