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The Chinese Exclusion Act marked the first time that federal law restricted a group from entering America on the basis of race and class. Its passage fundamentally altered the country’s relationship to immigration and borders.http://nyer.cm/P4NhjbK 

The Trump Administration has issued its final plan for downsizing the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. When the plan was first announced, in 2017, two local chefs turned their farm-to-table restaurant into “a remote outpost of the resistance.”http://nyer.cm/WoGltuG 

At Extended-Student-Loan Solutions, we believe that the problem of student-loan debt is larger than life. This life, that is. That’s why we’re giving you two more lifetimes to pay it off.http://nyer.cm/DYr7Jh1 

Since the 1970s, the Endangered Species Act has helped save more than 200 species from extinction. Now the Trump Administration wants to scale it back.http://nyer.cm/zaByPre 

A look at the photographer Michael Jang's rediscovered work from the 1970s, when he was an art student who snuck into lavish parties, went to punk shows, and wandered the streets.http://nyer.cm/o17yXCL 

At 72, Iggy Pop, who helped invent and refine punk rock in the late 1960s, may be entering a more contemplative artistic period. "A lifetime of creativity is a hard job," a fellow musician said, "and he’s a soldier."http://nyer.cm/2iOpDUt 

For decades, the artist Vija Celmins has focussed her work on a few recurrent motifs—oceans, deserts, night skies. “I like big spaces,” she says, “and I wrestle them into a small area and say, ‘Lie down and stay there, like a good dog.’ ”http://nyer.cm/hxwSd3B 

Nell Zink’s new novel, “Doxology,” presents a sardonic view of violence, war, and climate change, as well as the actions required to counter environmental catastrophe.http://nyer.cm/ScDHlAO 

"Where'd You Go, Bernadette" only seems to burst into glory when Cate Blanchett is front and center.http://nyer.cm/7C9kuMi 

The share of income going to the top one per cent has soared from eight per cent in the early 1980s to almost 20 per cent today. Is it possible to curb the trend toward greater inequality?http://nyer.cm/iYYpjs7 

The literature of espionage shows that national intelligence isn’t necessarily intelligent.http://nyer.cm/8MC1AYn 

Physical books—which, ten or so years ago, many fretted might soon be obsolete—show no signs of going away.http://nyer.cm/y698zVj 

The funny, ravenous, and strange novels of Nell Zink look at American culture from the fringes, following activists and misfits as they contend with the absurdities of the modern world.http://nyer.cm/qLc8Dgq 

The film adaptation of "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" narrows the complex novel down to a simpler story.http://nyer.cm/U2gwB9w 

After long, gruelling years spent in the punk-rock industry and on tour, Iggy Pop, at age 72, attempts to build himself back up on the beaches of Miami.http://nyer.cm/HGBDGfu 

Two creators discuss their show "Our Boys," a depiction of the effects of hate crime in Israel and Palestine. Listen here, in our latest episode of the podcast.http://nyer.cm/K4aLtvi 

On learning Spanish in New York City.http://nyer.cm/t3v9A0T 

Tim Bell, one of London’s most powerful publicists, has died. Last year, @edcaesar wrote about Bell’s unrepentant willingness to represent dictators and oligarchs.http://nyer.cm/LvQ6NFB