AUTO PLAY-ACTING

Bow Down and Fight

New York—Demonstrators pray outside Brooklyn Borough Hall on February 2

Settling In for a Fight

Amona, West Bank— Israeli police evict settlers on February 1

Behind the Tired Curtain

Kokkinotrimithia, Cyprus—A Syrian boy looks out as his bus arrives

Beasts of No Nation

Mosul, Iraq—Before the battle of Mosul began, the zoo in

LIES AND CONSEQUENCES

Is Donald Trump capable of telling truth from fabrication?

SHOPPING WITH THE ENEMY

Why it’s so hard for Palestinians in the West Bank to boycott Israeli goods

HOMELESS AWAY FROM HOME

Trump’s executive order has left thousands of Somali refugees stranded in camps that are about to close

How much longer can Oman be an oasis of peace in the Middle East?

THE DESERT country of Oman does not have the most

PUTIN’S MIDDLE EAST DREAM

Kicked out of the Middle East after the Cold War, the Kremlin has clawed its way back—at the expense of American power and prestige

MUCK YOU VERY MUCH

INSTEAD OF DRAINING THE SWAMP, TRUMP MIGHT BE THE BEST THING THAT’S HAPPENED TO LOBBYISTS SINCE EXPENSE ACCOUNTS

INK-STAINED KVETCHES

The best way to get better news is to make news better

THE BULLET VIRUS

Research says gun violence is a disease, and it’s gone viral

THE DRY CLEAN

Washing machines that use beads and detergent could ease California’s drought and help save the environment

STOP DOSING MY BURGER

The FDA curtails animal antibiotic use, fearing threats to humans

Palm Springs, California Time to party, in modernism’s home

FREE OF THE White House, on January 20 Barack and

Wave Rider

Yves Béhar surfs the swells of California cool, technology—and social good

The Art of Living

MARINA ABRAMOVIC IS the deinition of an original. Arguably the

Elena Mendoza, composer, inds music in J.C. Onetti

“AS I READ, I collect ideas for my work. I

Man as Island Lutz Seiler turns Defoe into a Cold War parable

FOR MANY BRITISH children growing up in the late 1960s

Too Good to Be True Denzel Washington is let down by his own charm in ‘Fences’

AS TROY MAXSON, the 1950s Pittsburgh sanitation worker at the

Hello, Holo

WITH LONG blue hair, saucer eyes and a saccharine voice,

“Paris, 1948” Sabine Weiss

WHAT’S THE STORY? The photograph demands an answer. Is it