I remember the most dramatic vote of the new Trump administration, in July 2017, when John McCain defied Trump and his fellow Republicans and killed their attempt to repeal Obamacare.

Could you have imagined that seven years later Trump would deny that ever happened and pretend he was Obamacare’s protector? And expect to be believed? We are living in strange times.

How George Orwell Predicted the Challenge of Writing Today

Masha Gessen on George Orwell’s essay “The Prevention of Literature” and what it says about the modern condition of creating art in the face of a totalitarian state.

The New Yorker