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Contributors

The Mail

Goings On

Goings On: On and Off The Avenue • Well Suited

Comment: Looking Back

Off the Air Dept.: Swan Song

Dept. of Succession: Inability

Art Dept.: Elevated Taste

Real Moves: A Flight Not Taken

American Chronicles: What We Hold • The writing and meaning of the Declaration of Independence.

Shouts & Murmurs: Senior-Discount Disneyland

Letter from California: Fools Rush In • With gold prices soaring, Americans are once again heading West.

A Reporter at Large: Out of Office • In the Trump era, what role should an ex-President play?

Poems: While My Daughter Is in Surgery I Think About a Night in a Hotel in Florence

Profiles: American Tween • In some ways, the world is cooked. But being a twelve-year-old still kind of eats.

Sketchbook: Trump’s America

Portfolio: Resolved • High-school debate, our real national pastime.

Fiction: Standings

Poems: 1970

A Critic at Large: The Shot Heard Round the World? • The American Revolution was just one front in a vast global war. Which went rather well for the Brits.

Books: Crossroads • The inventor of “intersectionality” looks back—and ahead.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: The Big Picture • Frederic Church turned landscape into a vision of national virtue.

Books: Visiting Hours • In Harriet Clark’s début novel, a prisoner’s daughter must find her way.

The Theatre: Revamps • Two new musicals on Broadway, “Schmigadoon!” and “The Lost Boys.”

The Current Cinema: Couture Shock • “The Devil Wears Prada 2.”

Cartoon Caption Contest

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Homegrown • A themed crossword.