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Shots in the Dark

The Ozempic weight-loss miracle has a dark side: As desperate patients contend with shortages and skyhigh prices, a world of criminals and con artists are filling the void with lifethreatening counterfeits. KATHERINE EBAN investigates our alarmingly active pharmaceutical underground

Bibbidi Bobbidi WHO?

Disney is on the hunt for a new CEO to replace the legendary Bob Iger when he retires (again) at the end of 2026. Inside a $200 billion kingdom looking for a new king or, for the first time ever, a queen

Figuring It Out

Barbora Zilinskaitė's biomorphic wonders ask us to rethink objects and how we relate to them

Bicoastal Living

California mainstay Nickey Kehoe plants its flag in the heart of New York City

Gather Around

Revived by RH, Harvey Probber's modular seating innovates anew

Twenty-One Years Ago, He Incarcerated Was for Life. Last Year, He Ran the NYC Marathon a Radically Changed Man.

Rahsaan Thomas rounded a corner.

IS A HYBRID CAR RIGHT FOR YOU?

Hybrids offer a fuel-saving option for drivers who have reservations about all-electric vehicles. But there are trade-offs.

WHERE TO INVEST NOW

Expect a lot of midyear churn, with a rally toward the end of 2024.

My Top 30 Index: An Update

A year ago, I put together what I called \"my own reinvention\" of the Dow Jones industrial average, the popular 142-year-old large-cap index.

A New Perspective Goes a Long Way

How exploring different perspectives in the drafting phase story's unique angle.

Razor-Sharp Edges with a Water Sharpening System

Driving through the countryside or stopping at flea markets, you're bound to come across large white sharpening wheels.

Tool Gabinet

The tool storage you need for the type of woodworking you do is a personal thing.

The Art of People-Watching

Advice for how observation can help you put people on the page.

The Ecology of the Family

Build and leverage a family ecosystem to develop and deepen your fiction.

PRETTY IN PINK

Why did scientists put tangerine DNA in a pineapple-and can this Frankenfruit help change public opinion toward bioengineered foods?

THIS KITCHEN GADGET IS AN UNHERALDED TRAINING TOOL

Not only would the rice cooker help me meal-prep and pile on the carbs, but it was a badge of honor, a commitment to serious training.

REASONS TO RACE BEYOND CHASING A TIME GOAL

It's the determination, joy, and pride I see shine on everyone-a unique light that seems to illuminate most when running races-that brings more meaning to the miles.

Value-Priced Multi-Room Audio

MANY OF us use inexpensive smart speakers throughout our homes to play music and control everything from lights to microwaves and washing machines. Devices like the Amazon Echo are great at controlling smart devices along with other more capable smart speakers and amps, but they don't typically deliver a great listening experience on their own.

Multichannel Mastery

REMEMBER WHEN cars ran on gasoline, cell phones flipped, and you needed a forklift to get a flagshipmodel AV receiver onto your equipment rack?

Making a Big Purchase

I can remember sitting in the hospital room writing that month's edition of this column (called \"The Custom Installer\" at the time) after my daughter, Lauryn, was born in November 2006. Fast-forward 17 years, and now Lauryn is 17 years old, taking college classes, and driving.

Brothers in Atmos

How producer/keyboardist Guy Fletcher convinced Mark Knopfler to mix classic Dire Straits material and his new solo album One Deep River in Atmos.

THE LONG RIDE

The surf legend Jock Sutherland's unlikely life.

RED LINE

With the election approaching, the U.S. and Mexico wrangle over border policy.

ARE WE DOOMED?

A course at the University of Chicago thinks it through.

SUBCONSCIOUSLY YOURS

Does every generation get the Freud it deserves?

Beyond Imagining

Bessie, Lotte, Ruth, Farah, and Bridget, who had been lunching together for half a century, joined in later years by Ilka, Hope, and, occasionally, Lucinella, had agreed without the need for discussion that they were not going to pass, pass away, and under no circumstances on.

BY A WHISKER

Louis Wain and the reinvention of the cat.

INSIDE JOB-"Hit Man"

Years before Hannah Arendt coined, in the pages of this magazine, the phrase \"the banality of evil,\" popular films and fiction were embodying that idea in the character of the hit man. In classic crime movies such as \"This Gun for Hire\" (1942) and \"Murder by Contract\" (1958), hit men figure much as Nazis do in political movies, as symbols of abstract evil.

WHATEVER YOU SAY

Rereading Jenny Holzer, at the Guggenheim.

STATES OF PLAY

Can advocates use state supreme courts to preserve-and perhaps expand-constitutional rights?