James Surowiecki writes about the recent garment-factory collapse in Bangladesh and asserts that government involvement is necessary in order to improve labor standards: http://nyr.kr/ZUFySv

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Some American companies are using unsafe Bangladeshi factories to produce their clothes, where factory collapses and fires have lead to the horrific deaths of hundreds of factory workers. Here, Sarah Stillman talks to Kalpona Akter, a former garment worker who’s trying to raise awareness: http://nyr.kr/YmJJaH

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Today’s Daily Cartoon. For more cartoons, visit www.newyorker.com/cartoons

The seventy-eight items won’t only turn the Met from a whistle stop into a Grand Central of early-twentieth-century art, it will almost certainly spark a general revaluation, in all ways, of the most consequential and least seductive modern-art movement.

Peter Schjedahl on Ronald Lauder’s cubist art gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the artistic value of intellectual challenge: http://nyr.kr/XFE9zV

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This week in Comment, Margaret Talbot looks at how gun-control measures are losing support in Congress and recommends that such legislation should be treated with urgency, despite the perceived political consequences: http://nyr.kr/Y3jEYI

Illustration by Tom Bachtell

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Is the Fed guilty of waging a “war on savers?” In this week’s column, James Surowiecki argues that “the far more urgent problem is that it’s even harder for people who don’t have jobs, or whose wages are stagnant, to save anything at all.” http://nyr.kr/XG8e1l

This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases dealing with gay marriage: the challenges to California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. On the Political Scene podcast, Jeffery Toobin and Margaret Talbot talk with Dorothy Wickenden about how the Court might rule in each case and what the decisions could mean for marriage equality. Click-through for more: http://nyr.kr/XlrxwN

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   Is billionaire hedge fund owner Steven A. Cohen trying to buy off the S.E.C? John Cassidy writes that Cohen’s proposed settlement with the S.E.C., which admits no wrongdoing, could arguably be “the trade of his life.” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/14zzce7

Photograph by Ronda Churchill/Bloomberg/Getty.

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We are gathered here together, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, for funnier or, I hope, even funnier, to cast a jaundiced cartoon eye (and if you’ve ever had a jaundiced cartoon eye, you know how painful that can be) on a topic that’s much in the public eye these days: same-sex marriage:

Click-through for a look at some of the many New Yorker cartoons on same-sex marriage: http://nyr.kr/10WbCVB

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