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    Between now and the election in November, The New Yorker will be exploring the past, present, and future of American democracy: tallying our problems, reckoning with their implications, and inspecting proposed solutions.

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  2. From the start, humor has played a distinctive role in Andrew Yang’s unlikely Presidential campaign. But Dave Chappelle has said that Yang’s policies are the reason for his endorsement.

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  3. A selection of pieces that offers an illuminating portrait of the President’s inner circle.

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  4. The empiricism that matters to Novak Djokovic is his own experience—and his experience consists largely of winning. On Sunday, he claimed his eighth Australian Open title and his seventeenth Grand Slam over all.

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  5. The conflict between progressives and traditionalists in the Roman Catholic Church has hardened around the two living Popes.

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  6. Rae and Joseph Kushner escaped the horrors of the Holocaust by immigrating to the U.S. Now their grandson defends President Trump’s contention that refugees are a danger to the country.

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  7. The historian Karl Polanyi believed that the cruelty of the free market makes us vulnerable to fascism—a theory that is resonating again today.

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  8. Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

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  9. New technology—especially the smartphone—allows us to produce a narrative of our lives, to choose what to remember and what to contribute to our own mythos.

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  10. Parents sharing photos, stories, and private details of their children on the Internet often do so without fully understanding the long-term repercussions on data surveillance and privacy.

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  11. Abigail Disney, the grandniece of Walt Disney, has a hypothesis about why rich people isolate themselves from society: “they know that something is inherently wrong with what they have,” she said.

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  12. “As a teen-ager, I was just incredibly emotional,” says. “I didn’t realize that if I held it together just 10 per cent more my life would be a lot easier.”

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  13. “Until we get the Trinity right, our metaphysics is off,” the Franciscan friar Richard Rohr said. “We pulled Jesus out of the Trinity, gave him a white beard and white skin.”

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  14. Bernie Sanders’s platform is no less radical than it was in 2016—in its tone and its message, it remains an outsider’s campaign. But it also is beginning to look like a winning one.

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  15. James Joyce, who was born on this day in 1882, didn’t believe in miracles. He believed in coincidences. "My foot strikes something, I look down, and there is exactly what I’m in need of," he wrote to a friend.

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  16. Constellation that includes Regulus: three letters.

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  17. Novak Djokovic, who won his eighth Australian Open title today, is perhaps the modern athlete who best reflects the connection between the mind and the body, writes.

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  18. An Iowa stage production takes the ludicrousness of the 2020 Presidential race to task by parodying it in the style of the award-winning Broadway darling “A Chorus Line.”

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  19. A cartoon by Zachary Kanin.

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  20. At Dave Chapelle’s recent event for Andrew Yang, the 2,000-person audience ranged from devoted Yang supporters to Trump voters who hadn’t realized that it was a political fundraiser.

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  21. We’ve come to realize that football is more dangerous than we thought. Players, coaches, and parents must now ask themselves a series of difficult questions with amorphous answers.

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