New York Post

Please, pity for yoga terrorist?

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The New Yorker profiles several of the 120,000 kids who came to our country illegally without parents from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala between 2014 and 2016.

Elsewhere, we get stories that the magazine’s Park Slope readership can more easily relate to, although they might find them all the more horrifying. Take the seven-page profile of French author Leila Slimani, whose new book “Chanson Douce” delves into the darker recesses of motherhood, telling the story of a nanny who kills a middle- class family’s two kids

In her conclusion, Lauren Collins writes that such stories are a sore consequenc­e of the “commodific­ation” of our most intimate relationsh­ips. Hear, hear and please pass the babysitter app.

New York hashes through the lurid details of how Hurricane Maria is still ravaging Puerto Rico. But what’s even more opaque than a tropical squall line is the feature on Reality Winner, the curiously named NSA leaker who it brands the “world’s biggest terrorist.”

This odd, tongue-in-cheek treatment is all about how Winner — a Texan who, we are told, has a “Pikachu bedspread” — does not fit the profile of a typical terrorist. She dreamed of joining the Air Force but ended up advocating for neglected children. And she’s doing yoga and teaching herself Latin in jail now. All in all, it’s really, really sad what’s happened to this fascinatin­g woman and her family, the reporter seems to think. Far less interestin­g to the reporter, it seems, is the fact that she endangered na- tional security.

Time’s cover is on four female stars, including Oprah, in the upcoming movie “A Wrinkle in Time.” There is also a profile of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Beatrice Fihn who, at 35 years old, is director of the Internatio­nal Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. There’s also a story on the woman who is prime minister of New Zealand.

Seems like Time is running the articles it didn’t have room for in its last issue, which named #MeToo silence breakers Person of the Year.

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