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The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins talks with David Remnick about why Iran would provoke a U.S. President who seems to have it in for the nation. A reporter looks at how the Trump Administration is undermining a critical visa program that protects victims of human trafficking. Plus, Kelefa Sanneh shares three pop-music picks for the summer.

Dexter Filkins on the Dangerous Escalations between the U.S. and Iran

The staff writer, an expert on the Middle East, says, “This is how wars start; everybody’s playing chicken now.”

The Trump Administration’s Plan to Deport Victims of Human Trafficking

The Trump Administration says it has made combatting human trafficking a priority, but it has undermined a critical visa program designed to help trafficking’s victims.

Kelefa Sanneh Picks Three

The writer, a man of extraordinarily wide taste in music, clues David Remnick in to some great pop artists who aren’t extremely popular.