George Packer's Blog, page 15

Jane Mayer writes about David Koch���s retirement from Koch industries. According to individuals close to the family, David, whose health has been declining for several years, had resisted resigning, but Charles forced him out.

Sheelah Kolhatkar on how Elizabeth Warren is showing Democrats how to directly connect opposition to deregulation with the fight against corruption in the Trump Administration.

Amos Barshad writes about the ubiquity of male-pattern baldness, its social and psychological effects, and the frontiers of treatments designed to cure or slow it, from a new regenerative drug to a hair-transplanting robot.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about Dianne Feinstein���s victory in the California primaries on Tuesday, and what it reflects about trends in the Democratic Party and under the Trump Administration.

Douglas Starr on false confessions and the case of Brendan Dassey, which was featured in the documentary ���Making a Murderer��� and is now going before the Supreme Court.

As Donald Trump���s planned summit with Kim Jong Un approaches, Robin Wright reflects on the summits that have changed world history, and those on which history looks less fondly.

Joshua Yaffa writes on the young Russian anarchists and anti-Fascists who were jailed and tortured by Vladimir Putin���s F.S.B. for an alleged terror plot that seems never to have existed.

Atul Gawande writes about an experience he had as medical-school student, which taught him that in order to recognize people as truly equal, one must be curious and sympathetic about their lives.

Robin Wright writes about the off-again, on-again summit between North Korea and the United States, which was rescheduled after a meeting between President Trump and the North Korean Kim Yong Chol.

Charles Bethea on Audrey Larson, whose idea for a wall-mounted shield to stave off school shooters will compete in the National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo this weekend, in Dearborn, Michigan.