Dec 17, 2018 Vol 192 No 25

George Herbert Walker Bush 1924-2018

The Yellow Vests Expose How Fragile Emmanuel Macron’s Hold on France Really Is

Mexico’s New President Takes Office, Promising Radical Change

Author John McPhee Still Finds Wonder in the Outdoors, Chocolate and Circus Bears

Trump’s Haggling Over Trade Won’t Dent China’s Long-Term Plans
No matter the U.S. President’s dealmaking skills, the biggest issues that divide the two governments are effectively off the table

Don’t Expect Mueller to Charge a Grand Conspiracy

Mikhail Gorbachev: George H.W. Bush and I Ended a War Together. But Peace Is Now in Jeopardy
A remembrance by the only President of the USSR

What George H.W. Bush’s Life Can Teach America About Overcoming the Challenges It Faces Today
A remembrance from Richard Haass

George H.W. Bush Believed in the Essential Goodness of Americans
It was Bush who quietly but unmistakably laid the foundations for the 21st century

George H.W. Bush Accomplished Much More as President Than He Ever Got Credit For
From the beginning, George Herbert Walker Bush made it clear that he was going to be a very different sort of President

Barry Jenkins Wants You To Read James Baldwin
Moonlight filmmaker Barry Jenkins makes a James Baldwin classic all too timely

Why We’ll Never Stop Getting New Spider-Man Movies

The New RBG Movie Is an Imperfect Homage to a Legend

The Electric New Novel In Our Mad and Furious City Paints a Must-Read Portrait of London

John Grisham’s True-Crime Classic The Innocent Man Gets a New Chapter on Netflix

50 Years In, Van Morrison Can’t Stop Making New Music

Why Lin-Manuel Miranda Could Never Finish Watching Mary Poppins as a Kid