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The Mail

Goings On: Winter Preview • What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this season.

Comment: Standing Up to Trump

Name Game: A Kettle of Kamalas

Streetscape: Shed Life

Austin Postcard: Soup’s On

Lockbox Dept.: By Hammer and Hand

The Political Scene: Tucker Everlasting

Shouts & Murmurs: Life Advice with Animal Analogies

Annals of Crime: Syria’s Empire of Speed • Bashar al-Assad’s regime is now a narco-state reliant on sales of amphetamines.

American Chronicles: The Home Front • Some Americans are preparing for a second civil war.

Poems: Creation Theory

A Reporter at Large: The Shipwreck Detective • Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.

Fiction: The Honest Island

Poems: Two Kinds of Ending

On Television: President for Sale • A survey of today’s political ads.

A Critic at Large: The Artificial State • A different kind of machine politics.

Books: Beautiful Dreamers • How the Brothers Grimm sought to awaken a nation.

Books: Briefly Noted

Musical Events: Connoisseur of Chaos • The masterly musical assemblages of Charles Ives.

Cartoon Caption Contest

Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A beginner-friendly puzzle.