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1 In his cover story, Jonathan Chait put forth a worst-case scenario of Trump’s Kremlin connections, even asking whether it’s possible the president has been a Russian asset for decades (“Collusion,” July 9–22). Max Bergmann, director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Moscow Project, wrote, “Like the presidency of Donald Trump, the Russia scandal once seemed utterly implausible. But the fact pattern has become undeniable and it is increasingly apparent that the president of the United States conspired with a hostile foreign intelligence service to win the 2016 election. Jonathan Chait’s piece effectively captures the urgent need to stop treating the Russia story as a series of individual developments and begin looking at the bigger picture.” John Dean, former Nixon White House counsel, described the story as “a…

“I’M FROM CALIFORNIA,” Matthew Shain says, “and the Civil War was very academic to me.” That all changed when he traveled for the first time to New Orleans, where statues of generals and slaveholders stood all over town. Then the monuments started to vanish, as, over the past few years, cities and their governments belatedly realized that they had to reckon with the representations of white supremacists their civic forefathers had cast in bronze and zinc. And as the statues came off their pedestals—sometimes with official sanction, sometimes disruptively—Shain observed that “these symbols were being removed, rewriting our collective history, without having new symbols put in their place. It’s a transitional time, trying to find more inclusive and equitable ways of telling the story.” After all, he adds, “a lot…

Some are learning how to film ICE raids. HAWA TABOURE A U.S. CITIZEN FROM MALI, TABOURE TOOK A TRAINING COURSE THROUGH A HUMAN-RIGHTS NONPROFIT “IF ICE KNOCKS on your door, you have to ask them, ‘Where’s the paper signed by the judge?,’ No. 1. No. 2: ‘Who are you looking for?’ If it’s not you, it’s not an indication for you to open the door. If they get into your house, you got a right to remain silent. I’ll tell them, ‘I’m not allowing you to touch anything in my house.’” They’re looking over their shoulders. JOON YOUNG KIM, 32 SOUTH KOREA “I STOPPED VISITING A LOT of places where a lot of the ICE agents were coming, more predominantly busy areas of Hispanics or even Asians. I stopped going…

Unaccompanied minors can be detained once they turn 18. JOSÉ, 19 HONDURAS IN AUGUST 2016, 17-year-old José traveled to the U.S. from Honduras with a friend and a cousin. The journey took two months. “I WENT THROUGH SO much to get here. I saw mutilated bodies. I was robbed by cops in Guatemala and beaten by sicarios. I ran through deserts and jumped on trains so big and loud I thought my heart would jump out of my chest. Many people died on those trains.” After being apprehended by U.S. Immigration officials, José was taken to a children’s shelter in New York City. “In the children’s home, I was treated very well. They were caring. They’d take us out to the city to eat doughnuts, to McDonald’s, to play. To…

THE GOAL: Two months ago, the New York City Council introduced legislation to ban restaurants from offering plastic straws. Then Starbucks promised to eliminate them by 2020. So we set out to find the best nonplastic straw to carry around for coffees to go and movie-theater Cokes. THE VERDICT: While stainless-steel straws are the most common alternative, they’re far from perfect. Metal transfers heat, so sipping scalding coffee could mean scalding lips. The solution is the Koffie straw ($12 for two at koffiestraw.com), which is made from silicone and will remain room temperature even if a drink is piping hot. It’s thin enough to fit through the slit in a coffee lid, flexible enough to fold up into any bag, dishwasher safe, and comes in two sizes (seven and ten…

349 W. 86TH ST. UPPER WEST SIDE Built in 1900, this Beaux-Arts-style mansion was nearly made into office space in the ’90s. Neighbors stepped in to save it; the building was last on the market for $50 million. WALKING AROUND THE CITY, one often encounters architectural anomalies: a glassy, undulating Gehry, say, or an alley of colorful Greek Revivals. But there are certain outliers that are so jarring, looking as if they’ve been plopped down from outer space or transported from rural Nebraska, they make you stop and wonder how they got there in the first place. In some cases, it’s because the owners refused to sell a centuries-old building to developers; in others, it’s because they spent years finagling a wacky façade past the Landmarks Preservation Commission—just a few…

FEW THINGS ILLUSTRATE the madcap, upside-down nature of the dining world over the last decade or so better than the apotheosis of the lowly Neapolitan-style pizzaiolo. Witness the improbable career of Anthony Mangieri, a baker from the Jersey shore, whose tiny, bunkered wood-oven establishment, Una Pizza Napoletana, helped usher in the great Neapolitan-pie craze when it opened in the East Village back in 2004. Mangieri’s intense, hollow-eyed pursuit of the perfectly pure, perfectly crafted margherita pie (he traveled to Naples to divine the secrets of the ancient masters; unlike local slice merchants, he shunned sugary sauces and bleached flour; he made every single pie himself) became the stuff of local legend not just among the city’s opinionated, ever-expanding rabble of pizza scholars but among the increasingly craft-conscious, Slow Food–centric food…

“Weird Al” Yankovic “I TRY MY BEST not to offend. I tend to go for what I consider family-friendly humor. There’s no harsh profanity; there’s nothing really overtly sexual. I try to give people the comedy that’s not gonna make your grandmother soil her underwear. Having said that, listening to some of my old material, there are some words that I’ve used which have dated very poorly that I would not use in present day. There are a couple of songs in the ’80s where I use the word midget, which in the ’80s was not that much of a slur. It was not a kind word, but it was not a slur. These days, I do not say that word. In fact, at one point on this tour, I…

WHEN YOU PLANNED A BEACH DAY “Rockaway! 2018: Narcissus Garden” | Yayoi Kusama’s 1,500 mirrored spheres, redeployed in a former train garage. Gateway National Recreation Area at Fort Tilden; through September 3. WHEN YOU WANT ACCESS TO A/C Snowman | Three frost-covered copper spheres bring Peter Fischli’s “snowman” sculpture to life. Sculpture Garden at MoMA; ongoing. WHEN YOU LONG FOR A YACHT RIDE Flow Separation | Tauba Auerbach’s red-and-white “dazzled” fireboat offers free public rides on the weekends. Brooklyn Bridge Park and Hudson River Park; through September 23. WHEN YOU WANT COCKTAILS ON A ROOF “We Come in Peace” | Among the best Met roof-sculpture installations since the program began in 1987, Huma Bhabha’s work “brings you into the realm of gods,” says New York’s…

IT’S 8:50 P.M., ten minutes before closing, and Michiko Kakutani is riffling through vinyl at A1 Records on East 6th Street, searching in vain for a copy of Beggars Banquet. “The Stones are my all-time favorite,” she says. “I wonder if they have any other Keith stuff here.” Kakutani worships Keith Richards. “I think he’s the heart and the soul of the Stones,” she explains. “He’s just inhaled all blues and musical history and he really wants to pass that knowledge on. I thought his memoir was totally amazing.” Her opinion of that book is more important than yours, or mine, or anyone’s. That’s because in 2010, as chief book critic for the New York Times, she reviewed it. For three decades, hers was the most influential voice in publishing,…

• Rescinded DACA, barring those who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children from receiving work permits; judges overturned the ban, at least for now. • Rescinded the Temporary Protected Status program; immigrants from Haiti, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador are losing their status and must prepare to leave. • Reduced the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. to about one-half of what it was in 2016. • Launched a denaturalization initiative aimed at those suspected of having lied on their applications. • Disqualified victims of domestic violence and gang-related violence for asylum. • Tripled the number of pages in green-card applications. • Increased red tape for employers hiring H-1B-visa candidates—applications dropped 20 percent from 2016 to 2018. • Proposed a rule barring the spouses of H-1B-visa holders…

AS IMMIGRATION ARRESTS have increased, homemade videos have been used to stay or throw out deportation orders, says Palika Makam, a program coordinator for Witness, a nonprofit that held the workshop in New York that Taboure attended. → Get several angles, both close-ups and wide-angle shots, and capture local landmarks to corroborate details: street signs, clocks that show the current time. → Avoid filming the faces of protesters and other bystanders, or if you can’t, use the face-blurring tool on YouTube. → Don’t narrate—don’t say anything at all, since it can be used against you in court. “If you’re going to narrate, stick to objective facts.” → Know your rights, but also know when not to use them. When a jumpy ICE agent holding a Taser says to turn off…

Ivor: Sometimes when I see my dad in detention, to be honest, I want to sneak out with him so he can be with us. But then, the Hudson County detention people would be all, like, searching for him. That’s why I quit on that idea. I also have this idea to get back on Donald Trump. If he wants to arrest anyone, then I want to arrest his parents. Or him! So that’s what he deserves! Also I’m kind of furious. Dwight: I don’t want to move to Indonesia. The rules there are not that good. And here the laws are not that good, too. That’s why I want the laws to change, so it could be fair and everyone could be happy in the country. Ivor: My brother…

MASTER SOMMELIER Pascaline Lepeltier was walking through Central Park when she recognized a scent: manure, which rhymes with flâneur when she says it. “It’s funny because some guys love this smell—that kind of dirty, sweaty smell,” Lepeltier says. “That’s what they want in natural wine. Horse shit.” To be clear, Lepeltier supports natural wine. That is, wine made from organically grown grapes fermented in their own naturally occurring yeasts. During fermentation, a whole ecosystem of yeasts and bacteria grow, die, interact, and expel by-products, including alcohol. Commercial winemakers use chemicals and machines to manipulate that ecosystem; organic winemakers do the same with organic grapes. Natural wine is even purer—or dirtier, if you’re being literal about terroir. “Nothing added and nothing removed” is the mantra: no industrial yeasts, no additives, no…

“There’s a high chance of possible damage from neighboring construction. Digging deeper foundations for taller construction can undermine the foundation walls of the smaller home—and there’s always the risk of big, heavy things falling onto roofs that are suddenly 60 feet lower than their neighbors. And, of course, if a big building pops up next door, you might end up losing some light.” —Simeon Bankoff, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL…

After chef-owner Simone Tong opened her mixian shop Little Tong in the East Village, no fewer than five other rice-noodle specialists popped up within blocks that year. Now Tong has added a new location on 53rd Street, geared toward the midtown takeout-lunch crowd. To that end, she’s added a sandwich that’s so terrific it might just inspire a wave of Chinese-sando shops. Tong says the JB Melt (which was born out of an experiment for a staff meal) is a sort of cross between a jianbing and the guokui pancakes she grew up eating in Chengdu. Whatever its lineage, the sandwich is crispy, gooey, and crunchy at once, with an invigorating hit of má là, that addictive Sichuan spicy-tingly quality. On the lunch menu at Little Tong Noodle Shop; $13;…

WE SHOT WAITING FOR GUFFMAN in Austin, and after the first day of shooting, we all piled into a van to go back to the hotel. I lay down in the backseat and pulled my knees to my chest, telling everyone my back hurt. “That’s from holding in laughter,” Eugene Levy said, sounding “old hat,” like a vaudevillian actor. I took a bath that night and cried from the shock of the day. It was strange improvising—like, Really, this is going to work? I couldn’t remember what I even said that day. Most films have a script, with the character’s dialogue written for them. Actors learn the lines and figure out the subtext, what’s “under” the line. Nowadays, though, most screenwriters don’t write like that; the style has become more…

“Apeshit,” Beyoncé and Jay-Z (a.k.a. the Carters) “I Like It,” Cardi B feat. J Balvin and Bad Bunny “Summertime Magic,” Childish Gambino “In My Feelings,” Drake “Nice for What,” Drake “Boo’d Up,” Ella Mai “High Horse,” Kacey Musgraves “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B “X,” Nicky Jam and J Balvin “Psycho,” Post Malone feat. Ty Dolla $ign Honorable Mentions: “Meant to Be,” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line; “Nonstop,” Drake; “Lucid Dreams,” Juice WRLD; “Esskeetit,” Lil Pump; “Taste,” Tyga feat. Offset; “Sad!,” XXXTentacion; “The Middle,” Zedd, Maren Morris, and Grey. Listen to Vulture’s “Songs of the Summer” playlist on Spotify.…

“My goal here is to create a governance structure around the content and the community that reflects more what people in the community want than what short-term-oriented shareholders might want. And if we do that well, then I think that could really break ground on governance for an internet community … You can imagine some sort of structure, almost like a Supreme Court, that is made up of independent folks who don’t work for Facebook, who ultimately make the final judgment call on what should be acceptable speech in a community that reflects the social norms and values of people all around the world.”…

IT WAS UNREMITTINGLY HOT AT the farm in Natick, Massachusetts, where 1,500 people had gathered on the Sunday after the Fourth of July. Remarkably, this crowd had assembled under a blistering sun not for a free concert, or outdoor theater, or even a protest, exactly. They’d come for an open-air town hall with their sitting senator, a 69-year-old woman widely expected to win reelection to her second term this fall. Standing at the back of the sweaty throng, I’d seen her introduced from the stage, then heard cheers greeting her entrance, but couldn’t for the life of me lay eyes on her. Not until I climbed onto the seat of my folding chair in the press section. There she was, jogging 75 yards down a hill in open-toed mules, her…

For one woman, a honeymoon turned into a nightmare. ANGELICA HERRERA DE LEON, 23 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC “WE MARRIED ON September 15, 2017. My mom booked a trip for us to Buffalo. Because of my status, we had to go by bus. We went to Niagara Falls on the U.S. side. We had a wonderful weekend. On our way back, we fell asleep, but then I realized the bus wasn’t moving. I saw the driver inside the bus station with the border agents. I knew that was it: They were getting on the bus. There were four agents. One started asking everybody where they were from. When he came to us, I wasn’t going to lie. I’m before God’s eyes. First, he asked my husband, and my husband told him he…

But a good lawyer can save your life. NIRNA PIERRE–PAUL, 52 HAITI PIERRE-PAUL CAME to Brooklyn from Haiti on a green card when she was 7. She struggled with addiction and did several stints in jail. In 2009, the government began trying to deport her. Sarah Gillman is an attorney with the Legal Aid Society. Nirna: My country had an earthquake [in 2010], so they decided they were not sending Haitians back. For eight years, I have to report [to ICE], like parole. I didn’t miss, not one day. I did everything right. The day before I went this year, I had a nightmare that they kept me, and they did. They said, “You’re being detained.” Then they put me in handcuffs. But I had called my sister and told…

1. “The lawyer gets the first call when I get in custody.” 2. “Then the family members.” 3. “Then the church.” 4. “When you get deported to Haiti [and] you don’t have any family picking you up, they assume it was because of a crime and you’re going straight to jail. That was my biggest fear. I don’t think I could last one day in jail here. My friend got deported 20 years ago himself. My family knew to call him in Haiti to pick me up.”…

Cool dress. Well, I like dressing like a rainbow. I found it at an African bazaar in Brooklyn. It reminded me of something my mom would wear, except way shorter. Are you close with your mom? We are now. We didn’t used to be. My family is very traditional: We’re Liberian, and when I was growing up in Maryland, my mom had a lot of ideas about how I should live, dress, talk. I’m not someone who likes to go with the wave. I wanted wild hair, crazy nails, and revealing clothing. What brought you to New York? I’d been working in the makeup department at Nordstrom in Bethesda and decided I wanted to move to New York. I packed my life into a ten-foot truck, hooked my Toyota Camry…

COUNTRY FARMHOUSES 121 CHARLES ST. WEST VILLAGE In 1967, this farmhouse—believed to have been the studio of Goodnight Moon writer Margaret Wise Brown—was transplanted from the UES to a backyard in the Village. 37 GARFIELD PL. PARK SLOPE A 1901 shingled single-family home built in the neo-Tudor style—made clear by its peaked roof, single roof window, and clapboard siding. 203 E. 29TH ST. KIPS BAY The first floor of this wooden four-story house—which was likely built in the late 1700s or early 1800s—is brick, giving the impression that the rest is floating. How Do You Take Care of a Wooden House? “New York began to ban them in the 19th century, but the city is still filled with ones that were built before the law came into effect. Wood is…

CONTOUR THE SHIT OUT OF ME,” says Kevin Kwan before his photo shoot, closing his eyes as a groomer applies a walnut-brown powder along the underside of his jaw. “More!” he says dramatically. “More!” ¶ Kwan is a mostly willing, occasionally reluctant participant in the remaking of his image as the author of the best-selling novel Crazy Rich Asians. The first book in a trilogy—which includes the sequels China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems—was published by Doubleday in 2013 and has mushroomed in popularity as the movie adaptation, starring Constance Wu and Michelle Yeoh, inches toward its August 15 release. (The original novel hit No. 1 on the New York Times’ best-seller list for paperback fiction for the first time in July.) “People are often disappointed when they meet…

IT STARTED WITH SERIAL: Hae Min Lee disappears after school one day. Weeks later, her classmate and ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed is arrested for her murder. He says he’s innocent. And the entire country couldn’t get enough. By last year, there were a quarter of a billion downloads of the podcast. We were primed and ready for a true-crime-podcast explosion. ¶ And it happened so fast that it’s been hard to keep up, so here is a guide to the 52 true-crime podcasts that we’d most recommend. IF YOU WANT TO FOCUS ON ONE STORY Serial EPISODES: 23. LENGTH: One hour. The pod that launched it all. It’s spawned a very popular spinoff, Undisclosed, that chronicles Syed’s battle to prove his innocence. Missing & Murdered EPISODES: 19. LENGTH: One hour. The…