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40 Acres and a Lie

We compiled Reconstruction-era documents to identify 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans given land-only to have it returned to their enslavers.

Mission from God. Church And Statehood– A new Puerto Rican political party puts faith before status.

A new Puerto Rican political party puts faith before status. Puerto Rico’s churches, which in recent decades were mostly confined to private life, are now reshaping political dynamics. Proyecto Dignidad is a reflection of a broader populist global trend, and it draws inspiration from the Trump playbook and other domestic right-wing currents that helped him win over significant numbers of Latino voters in 2020.

Biden's European Headache

The right-wing surge in the EU elections could hamper the president's ambitions in Ukraine and play into the hands of his election rival, Donald Trump

Lupita Nyong'o

THE TRAILER FOR A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (JUNE 28) SHOWS STAR LUPITA Nyong'o carrying a cat around moments before New York City is overtaken by aliens.

A Novel Without Characters

Rachel Cusk's lonely experiment: Parade. Her new book, a novel of elusive vignettes, it can be seen as an allegory about both fiction and the gendered shapes of selfhood.

Kafka's Not Supposed to Make Sense - Kafka died a century ago this year at the age of 40, and since then a mighty industry has arisen to deliver all of the messages that Kafka said would never be delivered.

It would be foolish to claim that Kafka learned his metaphysical wordplay from Jewish texts alone. He read widely: Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He admired the understated prose of Anton Chekhov and Heinrich von Kleist. He read literary magazines that published cutting-edge work, too. Still, his regular reading of the Bible—nightly, during some periods of his life—contributed a laconic quality to his classical prose that doesn’t make him anachronistic; it makes him original.

THE GLACIER RESCUE PROJECT

Can the mighty Thwaites be stopped from tumbling into the sea?

The Industry That Ate America

The long and lurid history of lobbying

Too Cute to Fail

Koalas are threatened by climate change, cars, and chlamydia. Can Australia find a way to protect its most beloved animal?

THE FIRST THREE MONTHS

What I saw inside the government’s response to COVID-19

THE VALLEY

Searching for the future in the most American city

Tornado Watch

How Lee Isaac Chung reimagined Twister, one of the biggest climate-disaster thrillers of all time

THE FAST AND THE SPURIOUS

Ohio GOP Senate hopeful Bernie Moreno built an empire selling cars-and stiffing workers.

WHAT WE ARE OWED

Technology and genealogy have made the case for reparations specific-and undeniable.

SAVED

Finding self-love after Christian conversion therapy

PARADISE STOLEN

Black families were cheated out of their land on Skidaway Island. Now it's a wealthy white enclave

RAGING BULL DONALD TRUMP'S PUGILISTIC SPOKESMAN HAS TAKEN CAMPAIGNING TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF LOW.

IN late February, after Donald Trump had nearly vanquished the entirety of the Republican primary field, his spokesman, Steven Cheung, took aim at the one opponent still standing. \"Birdbrain, are you a liar or just plain stupid?\" he posted on X.

'I don't have faith in doctors anymore!'

How women get pressured into long-term birth control

Strait Talk

TAIWAN'S NEW PRESIDENT LAI CHING-TE IS TAKING A HARD LINE ON CHINA. BEIJING IS NOT AMUSED

The way to a truly restful vacation

TRAVEL CAN DO WONDERS FOR YOUR well-being: expanding your mind, bonding you to loved ones, and connecting you with nature.

DO LESS. IT'S GOOD FOR YOU

Unproductive moments can boost health and happiness

Afghan women defying the Taliban

WHEN KABUL FELL TO THE TALIBAN, RETURNING Afghanistan to the fundamentalist group's control, women who did not flee faced a reality in which they could no longer be who they are: journalists deleted evidence of their work, artists destroyed their creations, and graduates set fire to their degrees.

Failure to Deliver

Multinational companies embraced Chinese factories to lower costs. Their excessive reliance ended up being a central cause of the COVID supply chain meltdown

The TikTok Election

With both Donald Trump and Joe Biden now on the app, could it help determine the next U.S. president in November?

Major League Error

Why baseball fans have long thought Ty Cobb to be a racist when he wasn't

How Trump prepared his allies for a guilty verdict

The Trump campaign was prepared. Minutes after a Manhattan jury convicted the former President, fundraising pitches inundated inboxes, right-wing influencers stormed social media, and Donald Trump emerged from the courtroom to delegitimize the verdict.

The Fight to Ban Child Marriage

Under-18s can legally wed in most U.S. states but young spouses are often left physically, emotionally and economically vulnerable, campaigners say

As employers embrace Al, workers fret-and seek input

THE SWEDISH BUY-NOW-PAY-LATER COMPANY KLARNA has become something of a poster child for the potential benefits of generative artificial intelligence.

How U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is navigating America's AI future

UNTIL MID-2023, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE was something of a niche topic in Washington, largely confined to small circles of tech-policy wonks.

SURGEONS MAGIC TOUCH

Americans turn down syringes but go UNDER SCALPELS. What do these doctors know that the rest of medicine doesn't?