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From the daily newsletter: a New Orleans conspiracy involving high-speed collisions, insurance payouts, and desperate people.

After negotiations to end the war failed to produce a deal, Trump imposed a naval blockade to cut off the Islamic Republic's ability to trade through the Strait of Hormuz.

Many people in the country had trouble imagining that Viktor Orbán could be defeated. But a philosopher also warned that defeatism can abet authoritarianism.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The neuroscientist went from analyzing elections to running for Congress. But can this rookie win over New Jersey locals--and Trump voters?

Readers respond to E. Tammy Kim's article about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Nicholas Lemann's report about the Trump Administration's attack on higher education, and Jill Lepore's piece about whether A.I. needs a constitution.

It is easy to treat the Dutch artist as an agreeable intimist--a transcriber of domestic niceties. But he grew up in a world of war, starvation, and massacres. His paintings were safe havens.

"I couldn't finish the article about / short attention spans either, / armed feds in the Wendy's, / Saturn slowly losing its rings."

"There are people who don't hear an internal monologue or private dialogue in their heads."