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“I don’t know that the piece you’re contemplating is necessarily writable right now,” a human-rights lawyer told Sarah Stillman. Then our reporter received a stunning video call. Plus:

The fight to bring casinos to N.Y.C.

A Parisian dystopia, where kissing is forbidden

Inside the most exclusive airport lounges

Deportees have been sent to South Sudan, a nation struggling to recover from a civil war, along with Eswatini, where they’ve been held in a maximum-security prison. Illustration by Anuj Shrestha

David Remnick

Editor, The New Yorker

In early September, the New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman rece

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