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From the January 26 issue for the January 29 meeting:

• Page 18 - The Ice Curtain: An Alaskan town's Russian relations by Ian Frazier
• Page 26 - Breaking News: Inside Bari Weiss's hostile takeover at CBS by Clare Malone
• Page 38 - Show of Force: The congresswoman criminalized for visiting ICE detainees by Jonathan Blitzer
• Page 56 - A Critic at Large: When Bernie Sanders left New York for Vermont by Jill Lepore
• Page 68 - The Art World: Helene Schjerbeck's wintry triumphs by Zachary Fine