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EXILE IN THE AGE OF MODI
How Hindu nationalism has trampled the founding idea of my country
The Reigning Master of Family Drama
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film, his first set outside of Japan, showcases the great director’s signature theme.
How to destroy a government
The president is winning his war on american institutions
How to tackle a Giraffe
The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think. Saving it begins with a daunting act of physical courage.
The Supreme Court's Enduring Bias
Over the past half-century, siding with the powerful against the vulnerable has been the rule in almost every area of the law.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Opposition to water fluoridation, while often vocal, has been largely a fringe crusade. But solid evidence for fluoridation’s value is surprisingly hard to find.
Reiki Can't Possibly Work. So Why Does It?
The 20th-century Japanese healing therapy is now available in many hospitals. What its ascendance says about shifts in how American patients and doctors think about health care.
WHAT HAPPENED TO JAKE MILLISON?
WHEN A YOUNG RANCHER WENT MISSING, HIS FAMILY SAID HE’D SKIPPED TOWN. BUT HIS FRIENDS KNEW HIM BETTER THAN THAT, AND THEY REFUSED TO LET HIM SIMPLY DISAPPEAR.
IT'S ALL SO… PREMIOCRE
A guide to the new age of Potemkin luxury
The World's Favorite Drug
The dark history of how coffee took over
THE PERKS OF BEING A WEIRDO
How not fitting in can lead to creative thinking
Hilary Mantel Takes Thomas Cromwell Down
As the author’s remarkable trilogy ends, her epic hero’s self-mastery is newly in doubt.
Can You Still Trust Nate Silver?
The leader of the data revolution believes he got 2016 right—and the rest of the media is in danger of getting 2020 wrong.
Abraham Lincoln's Radical Moderation
What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t
The NUCLEAR FAMILY Was a MISTAKE
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half-century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
The New Rules of Music Snobbery
Hulu’s High Fidelity reboot captures the end of elitist condescension and the rise of fervent eclecticism.
The Art of Second Chances
In Emily St. John Mandel’s disaster-steeped fiction, a derailed life can take multiple forms.
The Abortion Doctor and His Accuser
When a reproductive- rights activist accused one of the most respected physicians in the movement of sexually assaulting her, everyone quickly took sides. The divide exposed differences among women that are typically expressed only in private.
THE 2020 DISINFORMATION WAR
DEEPFAKES, ANONYMOUS TEXT MESSAGES, POTEMKIN LOCAL-NEWS SITES, AND OPPOSITION RESEARCH ON REPORTERS—A FIELD GUIDE TO THIS YEAR’S ELECTION AND WHAT IT COULD DO TO THE COUNTRY
IN PRAISE OF THE HERD MENTALITY
How the human instinct to conform could help us meet the challenge of the climate crisis
How Flamenco Went Pop
The Spanish star Rosalía has made the harrowing music of Andalusia into a global phenomenon.
The Miseducation Of The American Boy
Why boys crack up at rape "jokes", think having a girlfriend is "gay", and still can't cry –and why we need to give them new and better models of masculinity
ODE
From the outside it looks steady.
Retreat, Christian, Soldiers
Feeling out of step with the mores of contemporary American life, members of a conservative-Catholic group have built a thriving community in rural Kansas, one centered on faith and family. Could their flight from mainstream society be a harbinger for the nation?
The Patron Saint of Complicated Women
Bombshell is Charlize Theron’s latest effort to subvert the typical Hollywood role.
The View From Inside the Bubble
Drawn into the tech world, a 20-something watches herself get seduced by a myopic mission.
Before Zuckerberg, Gutenberg
Anyone who thinks we’ve now grasped what the internet has in store for us should revisit what the printing press unleashed.
The Woman Who Made Modern Journalism
Ida Tarbell helped pioneer reportorial methods and investigative ambitions that are as potent today as ever.
The Myth Of Free Shipping
How retailers hide the costs of delivery—and why we’re such suckers for their ploys
Cool It, Krugman
The self-sabotaging rage of the New York Times columnist