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Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes

Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes

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Marshall Curry and Judd Apatow on “The New Yorker at 100,” a Documentary

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This year marked a hundred years since the birth of The New Yorker, and a documentary about the magazine’s past and present, “The New Yorker at 100,” is now streaming on Netflix. The director is the A...

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Noah Baumbach on “Jay Kelly,” His New Movie with George Clooney

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