Loved Ones

ACROSS 75 YEARS, ISRAEL HAS BUILT itself around a military so formidable in battle that the country qualifies as a warrior state. But for the 2,000 years before that, the story of the Jews was one of perseverance through persecution, flight, and the kind of intimate, house-to-house slaughter Israelis awoke to on the morning of Oct. 7.

A boost for Poland's democracy, and the E.U.

IN POLAND, AN UNEXpected surge of voters ready for change has ousted a populist coalition government in favor of a pro-E.U., more moderate group of leaders. The Law and Justice Party, in power since 2015, won the most parliamentary seats. But its coalition partners didn't perform well enough to allow current Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski to form another government.

THE CASE FOR ANXIETY

Anxiety. The very word evokes discomfort. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, half of young American adults deal with it, so it's no wonder that this epidemic is causing us so much concern. But, as a clinician and researcher, I see a much bigger problem: in our society's quest to be anxiety-free, we tend to miss out on many valuable opportunities presented by this normal human emotion.

Mega-author John Grisham returns to his roots, in Memphis and on the page

ON A RACK AT THE FRONT OF BURKE'S BOOK Store in Memphis is a postcard showing the shop in an earlier era, overhung by a billboard that's no longer there.

Go Midwest, young man

JAKE VIA, WHO HAS LIVED EVERYWHERE FROM Fortaleza, Brazil, and Seattle to Sun Valley, Idaho, and Austin, calls Milwaukee \"the greatest city on earth.\" And he's serious.

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Why is the internet obsessed with fall?

AUTUMN DIDN'T OFFICIALLY BEGIN UNTIL SEPT. 23, but for TikToker Chasitey Pounds, it started in June. Pounds, 26, is one of many content creators who cultivate followings with comforting autumn visuals like pumpkin-spice lattes, candles, and chunky sweaters.

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Prime Is Money

HOW DEION SANDERS FLIPPED COLORADO'S FORTUNES AND BECAME THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT MAN IN SPORTS

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The unique stress of growing up right now-and how young Americans are coping

After McCarthy, a House in disarray

When asked the advice he would give the next speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy replied, "Change the rules."

What Beyoncé gave us

ON SEPT. 23 AND 24, HOUSTON WAS HOST TO BEYONCÉ'S brilliance.

Ukraine shows how drones are changing warfare

WAR SPURS INNOVATION. OBSERVING LIFE AND DEATH on Ukraine's battlefield, it's evident to us that modern warfare now transforms at startup speeds.

Health Matters

Depending on whom you ask, Oregon and Washington have been either reckless or trailblazing.

GOODBYE, COLUMBUS

To fully understand the deep roots of the toxic blend of ethno-religious identity politics known today as white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493not the year Christopher Columbus \"sailed the ocean blue,\" but the year he returned to a hero's welcome in Spain, bringing with him gold, brightly colored parrots, and nearly a dozen captive Indigenous people.

The human toll of Poland's strict abortion laws

SINCE A 2020 RULING BY THE country's Constitutional Tribunal, Poland has had a near-total ban on abortion. There have been mass women-led protests ever since.

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is on a mission to boost Malaysia's democracy

ANWAR IBRAHIM'S POLITICAL JOURNEY IS the stuff of legend. As an Islamist student leader, he was plucked out of his relative youth in the early 1980s to join Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's government.

Dianne Feinstein The lioness of the Senate

IN HER PRIME, NO ONE RIVALED DIANNE Feinstein, the veteran lawmaker who defied both label and party orthodoxy during decades at the heart of some of the nation's defining moments.

What can we expect from Sam Bankman-Fried's trial?

LAST SEPTEMBER, SAM BANKMAN-FRIED WAS DESCRIBED on CNBC as the \"Michael Jordan of crypto.\" Just over a year later, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX is on trial in a federal court in Manhattan in one of the most anticipated criminal proceedings of the year.

WAR COMES TO ISRAEL

A shocking raid by Hamas kills hundreds and challenges a strategy

The Control Key

Inside Elon Musk's fight-and-fears for the future of Artificial Intelligence

Fight at the Museum

Political pressure led the new Latino-history museum to scrap an exhibit on youth movements

Investigating the white savior-industrial complex

IN 2019, A DEVASTATING NEWS STORY RICOCHETED around the digital-media echo chamber.

Success, revenge, and Jessica Knoll

SUCCESS DOESN'T LOOK THE SAME FOR NOVELIST Jessica Knoll as it did five years ago.

THE KING OF CURIOSITY

Martin Scorsese's new movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, continues his quest for radical truth

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