After a private investigator named Jonas Rey was hired by a law firm to find out who had infiltrated its client’s e-mail account, he reached out to Aditya Jain, an old friend who works in cybersecurity in New Delhi, to see if he had any leads. It turns out that he did: Jain had done the hacking himself. David D. Kirkpatrick shares the remarkable story of what happened next—and what it revealed about India’s thriving hacking industry.
Susan B. Glasser, in her weekly column about life in Washington, looks skeptically at the different claims of victory being made by Democrats and Republicans in the aftermath of the debt-ceiling deal—and reduces their pronouncements of grand accomplishment to something a bit more plain: “The global economy is not going to go into a tailspin because a bunch of politicians refused to do their jobs.”
From the News Desk
Elements
The Strange Story of a Cat Lockdown
Feline residents of Walldorf, Germany, can’t go outside when certain birds are breeding. Is it cruelty or conservation?
By Ben Crair
Daily Comment
The Abortion Fight Has Voters Turning to Ballot Initiatives
And Republicans are increasingly attempting to limit that direct-democracy option.
By Peter Slevin
Culture Dept.
Cultural Comment
A Gifted Composer Gone Too Soon
In the summer of his death, Peter Foley and I talked about the shape of an artist’s life made under the special pressures of the modern musical theatre.
By Adam Gopnik
The Current Cinema
Celine Song’s “Past Lives” Is a Calm but Moving Début
This story of childhood friends from Seoul who reunite as adults in New York is less a love story than a meditation on transplantation and transience.
By Anthony Lane
The Front Row
Shia LaBeouf Discovers the Political Power of Catholic Ecstasy in “Padre Pio”
Abel Ferrara’s Italian period piece is scattershot but undeniably passionate.
By Richard Brody
Screening Room
Screening Room
A Family’s Journey to Acting and Acceptance in “Foreign Uncle”
After coming out to his parents, a filmmaker decided to dramatize the experience—and cast his loved ones as themselves.
Film by Sining Xiang
Text by Yinuo Shi
Fun & Games Dept.
Name Drop
Play Today’s Quiz
Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?
By Will Nediger
Daily Shouts
Questions That Are Key to the Electric Vehicle’s Future Success
If your electric vehicle gets struck by lightning, is that like getting a free tank of gas?
By Alex Watt
Crossword
A Themed Puzzle
Tipping the scales.
By Ella Dershowitz and Aimee Lucido
Daily Cartoon
Friday, June 2nd
By Brendan Loper
P.S. A pair of ten-foot-tall replicas of the “Transformers” robots are blighting the tony ambience of a sidewalk in Georgetown, causing all kinds of consternation among the town-house set, according to the Times. Our film critic, Anthony Lane, might find it amusing. He called the first movie in the Michael Bay film series about the toys the “grandest proof so far that, when it comes to movie characterization, flesh and blood have had their chance. From here on, it’s up to metal and plastic.”
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