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Struck on One Side
Society tells me to celebrate my disability. What if I don't want to?
IS AMERICA READY FOR A NEW AGE OF NUCLEAR POWER?
THERE'S NO WAY TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT IT.
The Short King's
A maverick group of short sellers uses covert techniques to uncover fraud for profit. Now they're under investigation themselves. Are they the heroes of Wall Street, or the villains?
PARTY OF TROLLS
Republicans need to stop being so obnoxious.
Why Read Literary Biography?
What Shirley Hazzard’ life can, and can't, tell us about her fiction
Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better
His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.
White Noise Used to Be Satire
What was once mildly absurd is now funny because its true.
Can a Building Be Too Tall?
The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper
The End of Us
Is the reign of human beings on Earth nearing its end? A disparate group of thinkers says yes-and that we should welcome our demise.
The Prophecy of The Waste Land
One hundred years after the publication of LT. S. Eliot's masterwork, its vision has never been more terrifying.
The Reinvention of the Catholic Church
Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isnt on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways.
THE EUREKA THEORY OF HISTORY IS WRONG
THE REAL REASON AMERICAN PROGRESS HAS STALLED
SEEING EARTH FROM SPACE WILL CHANGE YOU
The question is how.
I WENT TO TAIWAN TO SAY GOODBYE
To my grandmother, and perhaps. the country whose resilience she shares
THE LOOMING REVOLT OVER HOMELESSNESS
Liberals know how to solve the problem. Why dont they?
Siegfried & Roy – The Original Tiger Kings
The improbable rise and savage fall of Siegfried & Roy
Good Luck, Mr. Rice
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment
The Literature of Paranoia
Living in Turkey has made Orhan Pamuk a master of the genre.
The Long History of Russian Brutality
What the fratricidal fury of the country's civil war a century ago can teach us about the invasion of Ukraine
The Trap
What it takes to make it in hip-hops new capital
Take a Chance on Them
ABBA makes a triumphant return.
LET PUERTO RICO BE FREE
The only just future for my home is not statehood, but full independence from the United States.
THE SCAPEGOAT
A MUSEUM CURATOR WAS FORCED OUT of HER JOB OVER ALLEGATIONS of RACISM THAT AN INVESTIGATION DEEMED UNFOUNDED. WHAT DID HER DEFENESTRATION ACCOMPLISH?
BAD LOSERS
Election deniers are a threat to democracy. The midterms could be the last chance to stop them.
The Myopia Generation
Why do so many kids need glasses now?
Who Do the Benin Bronzes Belong to?
Thousands of pieces of art were looted by the British in what is now Nigeria, and are held mostly in Western museums. What to do with them is a harder question than it might seem.
The Operator
The journalist Sergii Leshchenko has a knack for inserting himself into the pivotal moments of Ukraine's history. I wanted to see the war through his eyes.
The Wedding Present
As a young woman, I had a friendly correspondence with a German soldier right after the war. I've been thinking about the silence at the core of our exchange ever since.
JOHN ROBERTS'S LONG GAME
Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?
The Roots of Republican Extremism
Three new books attempt to trace the GOP's break with reality.