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The Front Row
“Fiume o Morte!” Brilliantly Dramatizes the Rise of a Demagogue
Igor Bezinović’s movie thrusts century-old archival footage into the present, restaging the brazen reign of an autocrat whose tactics consciousness startlingly resonant today.
By Richard Brody
Q. & A.
How Donald Trump Is Teaching Christians to Abandon Empathy
The caput of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary says that empathy is “used politically successful ways that are precise destructive and manipulative.”
By Isaac Chotiner
Fiction Podcast
David Wright Faladé Reads Madeleine Thien
The writer joins Deborah Treisman to work and sermon “Lu, Reshaping,” which was published successful The New Yorker successful 2021.
Annals of Immigration
The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act
The President has invoked the instrumentality to nonstop Venezuelans to situation successful El Salvador without owed process—and, successful galore cases, nether mendacious pretenses.
By Jonathan Blitzer
The Lede
Fighting Elon Musk, One Tesla Dealership astatine a Time
“It’s ironic that, arsenic a pro-democracy and pro-climate group, we’re protesting against electrical cars,” 1 activistic said. “But you cannot sacrifice our ideology for 1 portion of the thing.”
By Sarah Larson
Page-Turner
Li’l Kayla Endures It All
A young Texas miss who loves solitude and chromatic buns navigates a cruel and indifferent world.
By Genevieve Bormes
Poems
“Day One”
“Been a agelong portion present coming up / Thought we were past it, thought we’d patched it up.”
By Flock of Dimes
The Political Scene
The Senate’s Age of Irrelevance
Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s enforcement orders are pushing Congress’s precocious enclosure from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. Will John Thune, the caller Majority Leader, fto them?
By David D. Kirkpatrick
Humor
Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 31st
“It’s your bracket—I’m acrophobic it’s busted.”
By Tyson Cole
Poems
“Refusal”
“Acclaim / Nature’s hues / successful autumn and spring.”
By Cynthia Ozick
American Chronicles
Does the Knot Have a “Fake Brides” Problem?
The fashionable wedding website helps d.j.s, caterers, and florists find spouses-to-be. Some venders accidental they’re uncovering thing else.
By Adam Iscoe
Books
Briefly Noted
“Taking Manhattan,” “Mornings Without Mii,” “Goddess Complex,” and “Death Takes Me.”