Arts on the Weekend
New York’s Second Opera Is Back

The New York City Opera returns from bankruptcy with a triumphant double-bill.

Our Blue Model Immigration Bureaucracies
USCIS Accidentally Grants Citizenship to 800 People

Nearly a thousand people from special risk countries were flagged for deportation. Instead, they were made citizens.

Demographics and 2016
Asian-Americans and Battleground States

The demographic group that the GOP just can’t seem to court is much stronger in VA, NV than nationally.

Bayreuth Journal IV
Crocodile Rock

The libretto for Wagner’s Siegfried doesn’t mention crocodiles. So why were two of them onstage—and copulating?

After the Coup
Update: Report on U.S. Moving Nukes from Turkey Suspect

Experts cast doubt on story of U.S. moving nuclear weapons from Turkey to Romania.

The Global Immigration Crisis
The Perfect vs. The Good

Two immigration stories illustrate a global fault line over how to deal with migrants and refugees.

The Sunni-Shi'a War
Fight the Sunni, Hate the Jews

Hezbollah turns up the anti-Israel rhetoric even as it turns its guns away from Jerusalem toward Aleppo.

After the Coup
Erdogan Releases 38,000 Prisoners to Make Room for Coup Plotters

Out with the thieves, in with the teachers.

The European Immigration Crisis
A Question of Identity

Few EU nations have resisted refugee resettlement more than Slovakia. To understand why, you have to go deeper than boilerplate about “xenophobia.”

After Blue
Bundesbank: Raise German Retirement Age to 69

Move will make Millennials work longer to pay for boomer retirement.

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