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February 20, 2017

Cover Story

How Many Chances Do You Get to Be an American Hero?

John McCain the Republican versus John McCain the patriot. By Gabriel Sherman

On the Cover: Senator John McCain. Photograph by Nigel Parry for New York Magazine.

Features

Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games

Life is rigged, play is meritocratic.

By Frank Guan
As American As Refusing to Stand for the National Anthem

Sports may never be a politics-free zone again.

By Reeves Wiedeman

Intelligencer

Talk

How Trump’s surrogates are revolutionizing the language of lying.
92 Minutes With Glenn Close

Back on Broadway for a second turn in Sunset Boulevard.
Brand Names

Melania and Ivanka Trump have shed their sex-sells pasts. So now what are they hawking?

Culture

The Cut

American Fashion Confronts America

With the most-anticipated collection of Fashion Week leading the way.

Departments

Strategist

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