Guilty on All Counts
Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
We Predicted It in 2017
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Rebecca Solnit on the signs and symbols of the Trump era: “Perhaps the only honest thing about Donald Trump’s overwhelmingly mendacious campaign was his promise to be a divider.”
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From a memorandum at the start of the “hush-money” investigation: “Cohen has told at least one witness that he has only one client: President Trump.”
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Will the movement outlive the man?
Read “Trumpism After Trump” by Thomas Meaney
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Filling the infamous silence in the Watergate tapes.
Israel Strikes Refugee Tent Camp in Rafah
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Statements collected by Human Rights Watch in Gaza, 2009: “The explosion was large and the smell unbearable. It caused a big fire. The pieces from the shell were burning, and they could not be put out.”
Read “It Is Better to Die from Bullets”
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The last correspondences of Rachel Corrie, an American activist killed by the Israeli military in Gaza in 2003: “I think when all means of survival are cut off in a pen (Gaza) which people can’t get out of, I think that qualifies as genocide.”
Monaco Vroom
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Hiram Percy Maxim recalls the 1899 gathering that was among the first “horseless carriage race meets” ever held in the United States.
Read “I Beat the Stanley Steamer”
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Racing to the Indianapolis 500.
Read “Speedway” by Paul Fussell
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Reckoning with the deadliest crash in motorsport history.
Read “Slaughter by Sports Car” by Laurence Davis Lafore
Un-Cannes-y
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“The Festival really exists for the producers and distributors doing business in hotel lobbies.”
Read “The Annual Rites at Cannes” by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.