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Silicon Valley's Influence Game - From crypto to A.I., tech titans are pouring money into super PACS to savage their political opponents.

One morning in February, Katie Porter was sitting in bed, futzing around on her computer, when she learned that she was the target of a vast techno-political conspiracy. For the past five years, Porter had served in the House of Representatives on behalf of Orange County, California. She’d become famous—at least, C-span and MSNBC famous—for her eviscerations of business tycoons, often aided by a whiteboard that she used to make camera- friendly presentations about corporate greed. Now she was in a highly competitive race to replace the California senator Dianne Feinstein, who had died a few months earlier. The primary was in three weeks.

TAKE TWO

\"The Hills of California\" and \"Yellow Face\" come to Broadway.

DOWNWARD SPIRALS

Missy Mazzoli's \"The Listeners\" and Jeanine Tesori's \"Grounded.\"

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

The exuberant, complicating drawings of the Shakers.

THE LONG CON

Rachel Kushner's anti-spy, anti-realism novel.

IF MEMORY SERVES

John Lewis knew how to put a legacy of heroism.

WHEN THE ICE MELTS

What the fate of the Arctic means for the rest of the Earth.

SLEEP ESSENTIAL FOR HEALTH

To achieve good health, you must maintain a regular sleep schedule, and be able to get back to sleep once you are awake.

THE SIGHTED WORLD

Growing up with the writer Ved Mehta.

QUARTET ISLAND

Mendelssohn on Mull celebrates chamber music away from urban pressures.

FIX YOU

The self-help positivity of Coldplay.

ILLUMINATIONS

Suzanne Jackson captures the transformative power of light.

RAT PACK

The classic rodent studies that foretold a nightmarish human future.

ROYAL TREATMENT

The unrivalled omnipresence of Queen Elizabeth IL.

WELL, WELL, WELL

Eating—and not-in the epicenter of hype diets.

NEWARK STATE OF MIND

Mayor Ras Baraka's reasonable radicalism.

DOOM SCROLLING

Social media and the teen-suicide crisis.

THE WORKER REVOLT

Harris and Walz try to stop blue-collar Americans from drifting to Trump.

THE CHIT-CHATBOT

Is talking with a machine a conversation?

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

At the 1940 Republican National Convention, in Philadelphia, an uneasy affair marked by bomb scares, a British espionage scandal, and the imminence of global conflict, ten names were placed in nomination.

Sniff Test - A maverick perfumer tries to make his mark on a storied fashion house.

What does conspicuous consumption smell like? On a December afternoon in 2013, the Parisian perfumer Francis Kurkdjian was scheduled to meet with the renowned French crystal manufacturer Baccarat at the company’s chandelier-crammed headquarters, near the Arc de Triomphe. The C.E.O. at the time, Daniela Riccardi, had commissioned Kurkdjian to create a limited-edition fragrance to mark the company’s two-hundred-andfiftieth anniversary. Baccarat planned to produce two hundred and f ifty diamond-cut crystal flacons of the new perfume, priced at three thousand euros each, and wanted the scent to reflect the quality and opulence of its vessel.

FAMILY STYLE

\"La Maison,\" on Apple TV+.

CLOSE QUARTERS

Jen Silverman's \"The Roommate\" and Celine Song's \"Family.\"

IMMATERIAL GIRL

Sophie is gone. Her music lives on.

MERELY PLAYERS

Race, politics, and the theatre collide in Alan Hollinghurst's

MOVE TO TRASH

Is it time for a new Constitution?

RHYTHM COLLECTOR

Eblis Álvarez's Meridian Brothers unites the many strands of Latin music.

Ambrose

Lily wants to live in the old days. Her mom, Debra, says, No, you don’t, because in the old days all women did was cook and sew and die in childbirth, but Lily still wishes she could travel back in time.

THE ESCAPE ARTIST

The Italian priest who helps women in the Mafia flee the criminal underworld.

UNCOMMITTED

Among the Gaza protest voters in Michigan.