Jun 12, 2017 Vol 189 No 22

Afghanistan’s Front Line

Admiral Stavridis: 5 Reasons Trump Should Send More Troops to Afghanistan

Family First: The Trials of Jared Kushner
Now front and center in the Russia probe, Jared Kushner is bound to Trump by more than marriage

Fighting Words: A Battle in Berkeley Over Free Speech
A battle in Berkeley over free speech shows how frenzied politics has become

The Case for Community College
Why it’s more vital--and vulnerable--than ever

10 Questions With Sir Harold Evans

NASA Hopes to Make History With Its Latest Mission-to the Sun

Chile’s President on Her Country’s Fitful Progress and Future Challenges

John Kerry: The Case for Optimism In These Strange Times
We must look for solutions for the long-term

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Is Worth the 20-Year Wait
Arundhati Roy is back with a second novel-20 years after her first

The Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer
New mysteries from Nicci French, Fiona Barton and more

A Quick Talk With David Sedaris, on Reading Secret Diaries
The author discusses his new collection of his own journal entries

5 Radical Activists Who Changed America

Smoldering Ruins
An absorbing true-crime read that doesn’t leave you feeling complicit

Is Force the Solution to Peace in the Middle East?

A Fraught Cannes, Inside Screening Rooms and Out

Jack Antonoff Shines a Light In the Dark

Wonder Woman: A Perfect Paradox for the Generation That Expects to Have It All

The World Won’t Ignore Chechnya’s Purge of Gay Men

Zbigniew Brzezinski
Cold Warrior and presidential adviser

Manuel Antonio Noriega
Panama’s strongman

Gregg Allman
Progenitor of Southern rock

What’s In a Board Game?

How Sharks Became So Scary

The Perils of Pulling Out of Paris
President Trump told aides he plans to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Here are three possible consequences.

Seoul’s Garden In the Sky

Why It’s Still Legal for Underage Girls to Marry in the U.S.

What You Said About …

Milestones

For the Record

Something to Talk About …

Books that will start conversations this summer, for every context