For the cover of the April 7, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Barry Blitt borrows the visual imagery of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” to convey the sense of impending doom that seizes anyone who turns on the news lately. And in the wake of Signalgate, as David Remnick writes, it has become clear not only that the Trump Administration has made no attempts to disguise its autocratic intentions but also that its “qualities of malevolence, retribution, and bewildering velocity have obscured somewhat the ineptitude of its principals.”

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