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Funding the government is ultimately a must-pass priority for Congress. It鈥檚 also an opportunity for the minority Democrats to seek leverage. Their base is pushing them to take a stand against President Trump.

Russia has been building alternatives to Western institutions that it has been shut out of following its invasion of Ukraine. Its latest effort, Intervision, looks to be a more international 鈥� if less liberal 鈥� version of the Eurovision Song Contest.

On his first trip to Tokyo, staff writer Ira Porter experienced a sea of skyscrapers and had new adventures with sushi. But the trip鈥檚 real legacy? Instilling his children with a love of exploration.

Robert Redford always had ambitions to be more than an actor. His legacy, our critic writes, will be as much about his nurturing of new filmmakers as about his movies.聽

Our reviewers鈥� picks this month include British writer Ian McEwan鈥檚 latest, 鈥淲hat We Can Know,鈥� a postapocalyptic novel that manages to skip the dystopian clich茅s. On the nonfiction side, American historian Jill Lepore is out with a sweeping examination of the U.S. Constitution that focuses on the amendment process.

For our essayist, learning English as a child meant adopting a new worldview and shedding an old one. Today, she鈥檚 rediscovering her culture.