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CHINA'S AGE OF MALAISE

Facing a grim economy, disillusioned youth, and fleeing entrepreneurs, Xi Jinping turns to the past

THE WRESTLER

How Jim Jordan prosecutes Trump's conspiracy theories in Congress.

NEEDFUL THINGS

The raw materials for the world we've built come at a cost.

IF NOT NOW, LATER

What gardening offered after a son's death

Personal History – Under the Carpetbag

A sixty-year friendship.

PREACHER MAN

Leslie Odom, Jr., stars in \"Purlie Victorious.\"

THIS IS FINE

Ed Ruscha's calmly collapsing America.

SONGS OF SURRENDER

The musical legacy of a notorious Mississippi prison.

CHICAGO IS BURNING

The blaze that ravaged a metropolis, and the lies that it launched.

FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTERS

Writers reimagine Mary Shelley and the monster she created.

HEART

Before 2015, I'd never been to Beijing, which is quite odd-an adult who's been working a few years ought to have visited the capital for a meeting or a classmate's wedding or simply to view the corpses of great men. For some reason, anyway. But I never did-a training session in Shenzhen, a business trip to Sichuan, but never Beijing. I never even got as far as Hebei.

BIG LITTLE LIES

Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino got famous studying dishonesty. Did they fabricate some of their work?

THE GROUP THAT OVERTURNED ROE

Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it's targeting trans rights.

CABIN FEVER

What tradition means at the historic Neshoba County Fair.

OTHER DETECTORS

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TOP OF THE LINE

Kwame Onwuachi and the rise of autobiographical cuisine.

American Chronicles – Passages

A trans teen in an anti-trans state.

Epic Proportions

Two new intergenerational sagas explore the American legacy.

Horny on Main

Troye Sivan’ songs of desire.

Possession

What happens when a novelist writes a follow-up to someone else’s novel.

Get Happy

The business of contentment.

The French Connection

Manet and Degas had a long, often petty friendship. The result was modern art.

I AM PIZZA RAT - HAN ONG

At the San Mateo Community Center, a sign tacked up at the end of the hallway says \"If you're here for FALLING, NATURALLY you've walked too far. Go back. It's the middle door.\" On closer inspection, the comma turns out to be some schmutz or stray ink.

LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO: Spectacular Fall

The city was on top, until it wasnt. But how broken 1s it, really?

Terms and Conditions

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ANNALS OF LAW: Fierce Attachments

How foster parents are battling birth families for custody.

Behind a Locked Door

As a girl in Austria, Evy Mages was sent to a mysterious villa where a doctor performed cruel experiments. Decades later, she learned why.

THIN ICE

\"Anatomy of a Fall.\"

CLOSE TO HOME

Reckoning with history on \"Reservation Dogs.\"

MELTING POT

Jocelyn Bioh's comedy \"Jaja's African Hair Braiding.\"