THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Dean Rohrer’s “Beginnings” – The city as a blank canvas.

Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy

Donald Trump’s son-in-law represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.

Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?

Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.

How to Protect Democracy

The emergence of Germany’s far right as a political force represents an old dilemma. By Joshua Yaffa

The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities

Why are we so obsessed with putting our belongings in metal boxes and then never looking at them again? By David Owen