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Corruption on the Ballot

Corruption is always an issue, but this year will it finally catapult from a topic of chronic bellyaching to an actual mechanism for changing votes? By Ruth Marcus

Why Immigration Agents Don’t Quit in Protest

How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel “at war with an enemy that does not fight back.” By Francisco Cantú

Did the World Just Gain Hundreds of Millions of Alzheimer’s Patients?

A new definition of Alzheimer’s includes people without symptoms. Experts are fiercely divided over whether that makes sense—and whether the new drugs really help. By Manvir Singh

Roy Lichtenstein’s Witty Critiques of Masculinity

The artist’s best work, in a new retrospective at the Whitney Museum, directs his campy humor at gender stereotypes. By Hilton Als