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At an Oval Office press conference last month, Donald Trump described present-day South Africa as “the opposite of apartheid”—a phrase so perfectly weird that the man sitting across from him, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, took several seconds to process it, before literally biting his lip and letting the line pass without remark. The opposite…

On May 26, 1967, the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, issued the following statement about a war he planned to start: “The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel.” Nasser and other Arab leaders believed that the annihilation of the Jewish state was both certain and imminent….

The comfort in the smell of bacon in the morningis mostly burning fat & salt, but the taste is sweetas the part of the pig that stores the soul.“If you don’t bless it, it might choke you,” Ma likesto say over the plates. My definition of familyincludes the sense kinfolk know & think they knowthings…

Crossing over the water. “The real beauty of the Brooklyn Bridge can only be experienced in motion,” the artist Christoph Niemann said, about his cover for the June 30, 2025, issue. Niemann’s celebration of the structure is a kaleidoscopic composition that plays with its cathedral-like thick towers and its thin mesh of wires. “My recommendation…

Whenever Donald Trump has contemplated confrontation with Iran, his decisions have been guided less by the consensus of the U.S. intelligence community than by his own calculation of risk and reward. At times he has pulled the trigger. At times he has backed down. All the while, the U.S. assessment of Iranian nuclear intentions has…