The Special Hypocrisy of Melania Trump’s R.N.C. Speech

Plus: why Hurricane Katrina was not a natural disaster, and Emily Oster on the costs and benefits of sending kids to school. View in browser | Update your preferences Cultural Comment The Special Hypocrisy of Melania Trump’s Speech at the Republican National Convention In conjuring the image of herself as a charitable, empathetic First Lady, Melania mirrored exactly her husband’s farce of magnanimity. By Doreen St. Félix Our Columnists A Dubious Pompeo Speech for an Empty Trump Foreign Policy A taxpayer-funded trip was used to aid the President’s reëlection effort. By Robin Wright Daily Comment Trump’s Convention Push for a Coronavirus Cure Puts Politics Before Health The President’s insistence on getting treatments approved before November is based on the election, not the research. By Michael Specter News Desk Should You Send Your Child Back to School During the Pandemic? The parenting expert Emily Oster weighs the costs and benefits. By Lizzie Widdicombe Culture and More Under Review Why Hurricane Katrina Was Not a Natural Disaster Fifteen years ago, New Orleans was nearly destroyed. A new book suggests that the cause was decades of bad policy—and that nothing has changed. By Nicholas Lemann The Front Row A Strangely Inert Bio-Pic of a Visionary Inventor “Tesla” yields to the artistic temptation to depict the past as inherently sedate and stuffy. By Richard Brody Crossword Today’s Crossword Only hyphenated letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet: four letters. By Patrick Berry Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Ask Your Doctor Before letting the government deny you health coverage during a pandemic, ask your doctor if this is a good idea. By Ginny Hogan Daily Cartoon Wednesday, August 26th By Sofia Warren

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