“Both candidates seem to be in a loving relationship right now,” Barry Blitt says, about his cover for the Politics Issue. “But it is worth noting that, in the event of a Trump Presidency, Vladimir Putin would be the first foreign-born First Mate since Louisa Adams,” he adds.
Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.
Goings On
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News Desk
Trump and Putin: A Love Story
The attraction is mutual, but history shows who’s really using whom.
By David Remnick
Dept. of Medicine
How to Die in Good Health
The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Peter Attia argues that it doesn’t have to be this way.
By Dhruv Khullar
Infinite Scroll
The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher
Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.
By Kyle Chayka