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THE SECOND CAREER OF MARTELLUS BENNETT
The former NFL tight end writes the kind of children’s books he would have loved as a kid.
THE COVID-19 MANHATTAN PROJECT
NEVER HAVE SO MANY RESEARCHERS TRAINED THEIR MINDS ON A SINGLE PROBLEM IN SO BRIEF A TIME. SCIENCE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
THE LEGACY OF DONALD TRUMP
His reign of lies poisoned our minds and our politics, with effects that will long linger. But democracy survived.
The Most American Religion
Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis. What will the third century of the faith look like?
THE MAKING OF A MODEL MINORITY
Indian Americans rarely stop to ask why our entrance into American society has been so rapid—or to consider what we have in common with other nonwhite Americans.
More Than the Vote
The suffragists’ struggle produced undaunted trailblazers, Black and white, who continued to pursue social reform.
The Committee on Life and Death
As COVID-19 has overwhelmed hospitals, the lack of clear bioethical guidelines has meant that doctors have had to make wrenching life-and-death decisions on the fly. The result has been chaos and unnecessary suffering, among both patients and clinicians. As the country prepares to distribute vaccines, we’re at risk of reprising this chaos.
JEANS NOW, PAY LATER
Are the new online services that allow you to buy just about anything in installments—interest-free—too good to be true?
China's Rebel Historians
Defiant researchers chronicle a past that the Communist Party grows ever more intent on erasing.
How Great Is Martin Amis?
Assessing the legacy of a comic master who grasps for seriousness
THE HISTORIAN WHO SEES THE FUTURE
PETER TURCHIN BELIEVES HE HAS DISCOVERED IRON LAWS THAT DICTATE THE RISE AND FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS. HE PREDICTS A DIRE DECADE FOR THE UNITED STATES.
School Wasn't So Great Before Covid, Either
Yes, remote schooling has been a misery—but it’s offering a rare chance to rethink early education entirely.
The Many Lives of Adrienne Rich
Praised by W. H. Auden as neat and modest, she vowed to be passionate and radical instead.
Whitewashing the Great Depression
How the preeminent photographic record of the period eclipsed people of color and shaped the nation’s self-image
Bringing Politics Into the Classroom
Why it’s impossible—and irresponsible— for teachers in minority communities to ignore the subject
The Existential Despair of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Revisiting the most disturbing Christmas special
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn't. This is just the beginning.
Death Of A Small Business
“I’m more than just my store,” my father told me. And yet, for nearly his entire adult life, all of his decisions had argued the opposite.
There's No Stopping Santa
The middle of a global pandemic might seem like a good time to cut back on holiday excess. But then, we live in America.
The WeWork Guy's Guide to Striking It Rich
Adam Neumann may be out of a job, but his wild rise is standard operating procedure in Silicon Valley.
STILL FALLING FOR IT
In 1957, Elia Kazan’s A Face in the Crowd warned America that a populist demagogue could use mass media to accumulate dangerous quantities of power.
OH, IT WAS NOTHING
Why Kamala Harris is caught between self-effacement and self-assertion
Why We're Afraid of Bats
On how we know—and how we learn— what to fear
Why British Police Shows Are Better
When you take away guns and shootings, you have more time to explore grief, guilt, and the psychological complexity of crime.
The Bible Without Miracles
Thomas Jefferson preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly.
The Election That Could Break America
If the vote us close, Donald Trump could easily throw election into chaos. Who will stop him?
Fluffing Your Own Nest
Can happiness be found in home improvement?
American Caudillo
Donald Trump is slowly making the U.S. into a likeness of the countries Latino refugees have been fleeing.
Last Exit
Donald Trump’s first term was characterized by theft, lies, corruption, and the incitement of violence. A second term could spell the end of American democracy.
Why Is the West So Powerful— And So Peculiar?
Cultural evolutionary theory has a startling answer: a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago.