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"Early on in the pandemic, the Danish photographer Joakim Eskildsen captured an image of his son tilting his head toward the evening sky in the German countryside, where the family lives."
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March 2022
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Loving the Bald Eagle to Death
Americans have had a strange way of showing their admiration for this regal creature.
10+ min |
March 2022
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John Milton's Hell
Cast into political exile, and into darkness by his failing eyesight, the poet was determined to accomplish “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”
6 min |
January - February 2022
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The Small Lie
To support the Republican myth that our elections are rife with fraud, someone needs to take the fall.
10+ min |
January - February 2022
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The Children Are in Danger!
Across America, well-meaning citizens are raising money and awareness about a child-sex-trafficking epidemic that doesn’t exist.
10+ min |
January - February 2022
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Hanya Yanagihara's Haunted America
Her new novel experiments with alternative versions of history, upending personal and national destinies.
10 min |
January - February 2022
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He Walked the Line
Johnny Cash was beloved by Americans who could agree on little else. Was he too eager to please?
10+ min |
January - February 2022
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The Freshman
After January 6, Peter Meijer thought he could help lead the GOP away from an abyss. Now he laughs at his own naïveté.
10+ min |
January - February 2022
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Imagine the Worst
How to head off the next insurrection
10 min |
January - February 2022
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January 6 Was Practice
Donald Trump is better positioned to subvert an election now than he was in 2020.
10+ min |
January - February 2022
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Dangerous Prophecies
The assumption that civil war is inevitable in America is inflammatory and corrosive.
10 min |
January - February 2022
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Unwrappers' Delight
Americans can’t resist the lure of elaborate packaging.
10 min |
December 2021
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The Autocrats Are Winning
If the 20th century was the story of liberal democracy’s progress toward victory over other ideologies— communism, fascism, virulent nationalism— the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.
10+ min |
December 2021
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The End Of Trust
Suspicion is undermining the American economy.
7 min |
December 2021
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The Miraculous Sound of Forgiveness
In his thrillingly transgressive opera The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart pulled off his most amazing musical feat.
10+ min |
December 2021
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How Self-Reliant Was Emerson?
Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, emerged from an exceptionally tight-knit community.
10+ min |
December 2021
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The Singularity is Here
Artificially intelligent advertising technology is poisoning our societies.
10+ min |
December 2021
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The Martial Art I Can't Live Without
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has been compared to chess, philosophy, even psychoanalysis. But its real appeal is on the mat.
8 min |
December 2021
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Several People Are Typing
Slack made it easier to crack jokes and easier to stir up trouble. Employees love it. Bosses don’t.
10+ min |
November 2021
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Unhappy Returns
What really happens to all the pants that don’t fit
10+ min |
November 2021
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Snowbirds
Photographs by Naomi Harris
2 min |
December 2021
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The Antiquities Cop
Matthew Bogdanos is on a mission to prosecute the wealthy dealers and collectors who traffic in the looted relics of ancient civilizations.
10+ min |
December 2021
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Shape-Shifting Animals on an Inhospitable Planet
Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, butterflies’ wings are growing stronger.
10 min |
December 2021
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In Defense of the Insufferable Music Fan
What we lose when we “like everything”
10+ min |
November 2021
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It Didn't Have to Be This Way
A brilliant account of 30,000 years of change upends the bedrock assumptions about human history.
10+ min |
November 2021
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The Men Who Are Killing American's Newspapers
Inside Alden Global Capital, the secretive hedge fund gutting newsrooms and damaging democracy
10+ min |
November 2021
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The Engineers' Daughter
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. A freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.
10+ min |
November 2021
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Facebookland
The social giant isn’t just acting like an authoritarian power. It is one.
10 min |
November 2021
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W. G. Sebald, Usurper of Lives.
Germany’s renowned and morally scrupulous novelist ransacked the stories of Jewish lives for his fictions. Does it matter?
10+ min |
November 2021
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How I Fell for Formula 1
Netflix got Americans like me to finally care about auto racing. The NFL might want to take notes.
10+ min |