Table of Contents

February 19, 2018

Cover Story

On the Cover: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Photograph by Steve Petteway/courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.

features

Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It.

The scale and darkness of this epidemic is a sign of a civilization in a more acute crisis than we knew.

By Andrew Sullivan
How Get Out, the First Great Movie of the Trump Era, Got Made

It began as a rebuke to Obama-inspired dreams of racial harmony and became a conduit for fears reignited by the rise of the new president.

By Jada Yuan and Hunter Harris
This Is the Worst Roommate Story You’ll Ever Read

One scheming, sinister man. A dozen unsuspecting victims. The ultimate Craigslist nightmare.

By William Brennan

INTELLIGENCER

Cityscape

A human camera obscura at the New York Public Library.

DEPARTMENTS

THE CUT

Clare Waight Keller’s Astonishing Haute-Couture Debut Was a Long Time Coming

A Givenchy collection 25 years in the making.

THE STRATEGIST

CULTURE

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