My Family’s Slave
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
June 2017
In This Issue
A family’s secret slave in America, Richard Spencer’s transformation, skydiving from space, and a new approach to helping psychopathic children. Plus, Pixar’s decline, Trump’s potential impact on the economy, and more.
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His Kampf
Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.
Skydiving From the Edge of Space
How Alan Eustace, a Google engineer on the edge of retirement, broke the world record for high-altitude jumping
When Your Child Is a Psychopath
The condition has long been considered untreatable. Experts can spot it in a child as young as 3 or 4. But a new clinical approach offers hope.
Deeds Not Words
Love and suffragism at a girls’ school in 20th-century England. A short story
Dispatches
Doug Chayka Will Trump Destroy the Dollar?
How a clash with the Fed could stoke inflation and destabilize the economy
Liza Zhitskaya How the Embargo Rescued Russian Food Culture
An unlikely gastronomic renaissance is under way.
John Cuneo Why Drag Is the Ultimate Retort to Trump
RuPaul versus the White House
Christopher DeLorenzo Boredom Is Good for You
The surprising benefits of stultification
Alvaro Dominguez The End of Forgetting
Technology delivers nostalgia on demand.
Joe McKendry Crooks Win Votes
A very short book excerpt
The Culture File
St. Francis Elevator Ride How Twin Peaks Invented Modern Television
As a long-belated Season 3 arrives, a look back at the immeasurably influential series
Eleni Kalorkoti Screw Wisdom
In a bold new memoir of female middle age, libido obliterates the usual clichés.
Zohar Lazar How Pixar Lost Its Way
For 15 years, the animation studio was the best on the planet. Then Disney bought it.
Mike McQuade (Illustration); Al Seib / Getty; Kent D. Johnson / AP When Black America Was Pro-Police
As crime rose from the late ’60s to the ’90s, so did inner-city support for law-and-order policies.
Dial Love and Gaming in The Chalk Artist
Allegra Goodman’s new novel tests its characters—a multiplayer obsessive, an artist, a high-school teacher—in ingenious ways.
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Graham Roumieu What Is the Best Exit of All Time?
A big question
