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June 18, 2013

POETRY

Therapy

O give me a room in a hotel ...

BY PATRIZIA CAVALLI

RUSSIA

Those $%@#&! Russians Aren't Always Wrong

It was no surprise that, after speaking in private for two hours in Northern Ireland, President Barack Obama and Russian BY JULIA IOFFE

MEDIA

The Offensive Reaction to Vice's Offensive Suicide-Fashion Spread

Vice's June fiction issue does what the magazine does best (or worst, depending on your taste): combine culture and cont BY RYAN KEARNEY

POLITICS

Prepare to Forget About the NSA

The president’s approval rating has dipped, probably because of the NSA surveillance revelations or the accumulated ef BY NATE COHN

CHINA

Did NYU Screw Over Its Famous Chinese Dissident?

Sussing out Chen Guangcheng’s allegations against his host.

BY MARC TRACY

POLITICS

Bobby Jindal, Meet Strunk And White

Barely had the executive jets departed Boston's Logan Airport filled with disappointed Mitt Romney backers after the 201 BY ALEC MACGILLIS

FOREIGN POLICY

The Two-State Solution is Dying

No one except, perhaps, Secretary of State John Kerry, thinks that the current Israeli government is willing to negotiat BY JOHN B. JUDIS

GERMANY

Obama Ist Kein Berliner

Fifty years after JFK's visit, and five since his own, Obama returns to Berlin—to a different mood.

BY CAMERON ABADI

MUSIC

Oh, 'Yeezus'

Kanye West's new album is raw, unapologetic—and boring

BY DAVID HAJDU

ENVIRONMENT

Explaining the Global Warming Hiatus

Its a climate-change mystery: As global warming has plateaued, scientists are more certain than ever about the long term trend. But where did the heat go?

BY NATE COHN

ONE-MAN FOCUS GROUP

Digital Tickets: More Convenient, Less Romantic

Why doesn't anyone save ticket stubs any more? Because there are no more ticket stubs.

BY PAUL LUKAS

POLITICS

Why Rubio Wins if Immigration Reform Loses

Politico has two new pieces about Marco Rubio's attempts to pass an immigration bill. The first story, by Alexander Burn BY ISAAC CHOTINER

THE OUTRAGE INDEX

Snoopy, Snoopier, Snoopiest

How should you feel about the latest invasions of privacy? We asked Jeffrey Rosen to give us a tip sheet for the scandals.

BY JEFF GUO

INTERVIEW

The Politico Bosses

A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation.

BY ISAAC CHOTINER

June 17, 2013

TV

Mad Men Season Six Episode 12, Reviewed by Dear TV: Post 2

Don's a baby, Peggy's a "little girl," and Sally Draper is growing up.

BY JANE HU

NEW YORK CITY

ISRAEL

The Israel Debate Cory Booker Didn’t Want to Have

Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s ascent to the national stage has been at once a long time coming—the chief executive of t BY MARC TRACY

OH CANADA

The Corruption Charges Keep Coming in Montreal

This morning, Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum was arrested on 14 charges, including conspiracy and corruption, largely BY MOLLY KORAB

TV

It’s Time to Stop Pageant Shaming

After Sunday night’s Miss USA pageant, the internet reliably piled on the clip in which Miss Utah bungled the answer t BY LAURA BENNETT

POETRY

Time Ghazal

There is fire in the beginning—without it, we thought, we could not see one another ...

BY PETER STRECKFUS

TV

Mad Men Season Six Episode 12, Reviewed by Dear TV: Post 1

In this week's episode, Peggy became Gertrude to Ted’s Claudius and Don Draper's Hamlet

BY EVAN KINDLEY

PRIVACY

Getting Over It

Just last Friday, walking down the street, I saw a handmade sign above a dumpster warning passersby not to deposit their BY WALTER KIRN

MODERATION

Patience With All Things in Iran

President-elect Hassan Rouhani may challenge the status quo—or become a part of it BY ABBAS MILANI

PHOTOGRAPHY

About that Rand Paul Cover Photo...

 An interview with Platon, who photographed this issue's cover with Rand Paul, discussing the experience, his art, plus various portraits throughout. 

BY HILLARY KELLY

SUPERSTITIONS

Rand Paul Is Keeping His Fingers Crossed

Here's the cover image from the latest issue of The New Republic, shot by the photographer Platon. Take note of Senator BY RYAN KEARNEY

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