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May 2, 2016

Cover Story

America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny

That’s what’s scariest about Donald Trump. By Andrew Sullivan

On the Cover: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (2); Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty Image.

Features

Tha God of Radio

Charlamagne, hip-hop’s interrogator par excellence.

By Mark Jacobson
SeaWorld, Breached

In the battle between killer orcas and killer suits, the whales, at last, have won.

By Benjamin Wallace

Intelligencer

Games

O.J.: Made in America is going to blow your mind.
357 Minutes With Chloe x Halle

Beyoncé’s chosen ones.
“Isn’t This Funnier?”

New Girl creator Liz Meriwether recalls the making of the Prince episode.
The Urbanist: Cannes

An everything guide to the festival city: what Cannois are talking about (rats, Russians) and where to get a 3 a.m. blowout.
Reread: October 5, 1987

Another tall building, another fight over a skyscraper’s share of light.

Culture

The Cut

The Dressmaker’s Laboratory

High-tech meets couture tradition in the painstaking construction of one elaborate dress.

Departments

Strategist

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