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فئات
“They're not human beings”
Ukraine and the words that lead to mass murder
Can Forensic Science Be Trusted?
The story of a forensic analyst in Ohio, whose findings in multiple cases have been called into question, reveals the systemic flaws in American crime labs.
Blaming Our Inner Ape
Humans love to pin retrograde gender dynamics on our primate cousins. Is that fair?
Chasing Joan Didion
I visited the writer's California homes, from Berkeley to Malibu. What was looking for?
The End Of Mom Guilt
Why a mother's ambition is good for her family
The Shadow Royals
Across Europe, the descendants of dethroned monarchs believe they have something to offer in the 21st Century
Change the Map, Change the Moral
A global view of World War II turns a battle for freedom into a battle for empire.
Fox News Does Late Night
Greg Gutfeld has owned the libs all the way to the top of the ratings
The Defiant Strangeness of Werner Herzog
The director brings his signature theme adventurers who share his quixotic compulsions—to his debut novel.
There Is No Liberal World Order
Unless democracies defend themselves the forces of autocracy will destroy them.
Tour Guides to a Tragedy
The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America. But today, if you want to know what happened here, you need to know who to ask.
Better Call Saul Dared to Bore Us
Do we still have time for slow TV?
After Babel
How social media dissolved the mortar of society and made America stupid
What's Bugging You?
Viewfinder
Winslow Homer's America
What the painter saw, and why it still speaks to us
Stiff Neck
I'd run out of sympathy for COVID skeptics. Then I remembered my father.
Privacy Isn't Dead
But who gets to keep a secret in hyperconnected world!
Sex for Art's Sake
Elif Batuman's curious experiment in fiction
The Abortion Underground
Inside the covert network of activists preparing for a post-Roe future
The Goon Squad Gets Old
Do Jennifer Egan's tricks still work?
The Man Who Told All
How the naked grief of John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud inaugurated an American genre
The Patron Saint of Stuck Presidencies
What Joe Biden can learn from Harry Truman
A Good Man, at One Time
How a Mississippi inmate became an advocate for his own execution
The Story of Jack and Neal
The friendship that made On the Road—and the Beat Generation possible
My Personality Transplant
How to find happiness, how I made myself less unpleasant
The Madness of the Method
Does acting need to be grueling to be good?
It's Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
The older we get, the more we need our friends-and the harder it is to keep them.
Cromer
In New Malden, they owned a corner shop together. It was the place where you could get the gossip magazines and newspapers from Seoul.
SCHOOL SHOULDN'T BE A BATTLEFIELD
There's a better way to educate our kids.
How Ireland Blundered Into the Modern World
The same forces that stalled a national transformation ended up fueling it.