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The Antiquities Cop
Matthew Bogdanos is on a mission to prosecute the wealthy dealers and collectors who traffic in the looted relics of ancient civilizations.
Shape-Shifting Animals on an Inhospitable Planet
Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, butterflies’ wings are growing stronger.
The Miraculous Sound of Forgiveness
In his thrillingly transgressive opera The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart pulled off his most amazing musical feat.
The Autocrats Are Winning
If the 20th century was the story of liberal democracy’s progress toward victory over other ideologies— communism, fascism, virulent nationalism— the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.
W. G. Sebald, Usurper of Lives.
Germany’s renowned and morally scrupulous novelist ransacked the stories of Jewish lives for his fictions. Does it matter?
Geography Class
Photographer Matt Black’s epic work of “critical cartography”
Sweet And Lowdown
The hidden suffering behind America’s sugar habit
Field of Trees
The case for bringing foliage back to the Corn Belt
Mainstreaming Militias
In Virginia, right-wingers who face down anti-racist demonstrators with AR-15s have earned an official stamp of approval.
Healing Requires Truth
A modern civil rights project seeks to reexamine hundreds of Jim Crow–era murders, and help families move forward.
Jonathan Franzen Finally Stopped Trying Too Hard
At last he put aside the pyrotechnics and went all in on his great theme: the American family.
RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP IS A LIE
How to convince Americans that firearms won’t make them safer
The Quiet Moments
In 2009 and 2010, while on assignment in Afghanistan’s Helmand, Kunar, and Wardak provinces, the photographer Adam Ferguson took a break from his journalistic work documenting the war to create portraits of American service members.
PLAN Z FOR IMMIGRATION
“A moral failing and a national shame.”
Peter Thiel Hates a Copycat
The billionaire’s extreme contrarianism is the secret to his success.
Stealthily Wielding Caesar's Sword
Sohrab Ahmari’s case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.
LET'S PLAY HORSESHOE THEORY
FUTURE
LEAVING AFGHANISTAN
WORLD
SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP
A TAXONOMY OF CANCEL CULTURE
How money talks
MOTHER TONGUE
NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN
With a 150-year-old law under threat, public lands mining faces a reckoning.
MIXED MEDIA: PLOTTING REVENGE
Vengeance narratives offer a cathartic thrill. But what version of justice are they serving?
Race for a Cure
How Flint closed the gap between Black and white suffering under covid
Two Years and Six Months in Border Purgatory
The Perlas did everything to play by the United States’ rules. Was that a huge mistake?
Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics
The Irish writer has been accused of being overly sentimental and insufficiently political. In her new novel, she makes the case for her approach to fiction.
The Heroine's Journey
In Joseph Campbell’s classic study of world myths, women were in the background. A new book puts them at the center of the story.
Twenty Years Gone
One family’s struggle to make sense of 9/11
Why Millennials Are So Obsessed With Dogs
The only thing getting me through my 30s is a cranky, agoraphobic chihuahua named Midge.
Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?
WE CAN THANK JUDGES WHO WERE PREPARED TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS.
Jane Coaston – Meet The New York Times' Libertarian Podcaster
Jane Coaston on the polarization of everything