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Omer Bartov is an Israeli professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. His new book, “Israel: What Went Wrong?,” argues that Zionism has morphed into an ideology of extremism that led to genocide in Gaza following the Hamas attacks of October 7th. He joins David Remnick on #RadioHour to discuss. Listen to the full episode:
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“It’s incredible that he is the player that he is.” In a live discussion after last night’s Knicks game, David Remnick, Vinson Cunningham, and Louisa Thomas discuss how Jalen Brunson has grown and surprised them as a player—and how tall he really is. Watch their full conversation:
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Jennifer Welch, the co-host of the “I’ve Had It” podcast, talks to David Remnick about why Gavin Newsom is going to have the same issues that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris had with the Democratic base, and whom she likes as a 2028 candidate. Listen to their full conversation:
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In February, Ava Kofman reported on a wealthy Los Angeles couple who obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang kept their children in a $3.2-million mansion in Arcadia; videos filmed inside the house showed children being spanked, forced to squat, and hit in the face. After police reviewed the home’s surveillance footage, they grew alarmed. On May 9th, Silvia and Guojun were arrested on suspicion of child endangerment, and their children were taken into foster care. The couple was released three days later, but the children have remained in state custody ever since. Read Kofman’s update on the case:
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About a decade ago, crashes involving 18-wheelers began to spike on a 14-mile stretch of Interstate 10 in New Orleans. When insurance adjusters examined the roadway where the crashes were happening, there were no obvious hazards. Stranger still, the cars in the crashes were almost always full of passengers. The likelihood of all this happening in one contained geographic area was one in 750 trillion. In this week’s issue, Patrick Radden Keefe reports on a vast insurance fraud in New Orleans. Read it here:
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Our film critic Richard Brody discuses three movies from the first half of the year that he loved.
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Andrew Cuomo is the front-runner to be the next mayor of New York City—but in 2021, he resigned from the governor’s office in disgrace. Ronan Farrow, who has reported extensively on the former governor, discusses the charges of corruption that shadowed Cuomo’s administration.
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Last month, for the first time in more than 50 years, four astronauts flew to the moon and back. Their mission, Artemis II, was a test run for future endeavors, including the construction of a NASA base on the lunar surface. Reid Wiseman, the commander of the recent mission to the moon, talks to David W. Brown about the fear inherent in a voyage leaving Earth, going deeper into space than anyone in history, and how the group of astronauts came together as a crew. Read the full interview:
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“I’m not an especially fearful flier, but I dread turbulence all the same,” Burkhard Bilger writes, in his latest for the magazine. To report his piece, he tried to find the most turbulent flight possible—and explored why skies are becoming bumpier. Read it here:
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