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DID AN ABORTION BAN COST A YOUNG TEXAS WOMAN HER LIFE?

As many conservatives hail the fall of Roe for saving unborn lives, high-risk
pregnancy becomes even more perilous. Stephania Taladrid reports.

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THE LEDE

Reporting and analysis on the affairs of the day.


WHAT COULD TIP THE BALANCE IN THE WAR IN UKRAINE?



In 2024, the most decisive fight may also be the least visible: Russia and
Ukraine will spend the next twelve months in a race to reconstitute and resupply
their forces.

By Joshua Yaffa


THE BIGGEST ELECTION YEAR IN HISTORY



It’s not just us. In 2024, more than half of humanity will live in a country
holding a nationwide vote.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin


WHY SOME ACADEMICS ARE RELUCTANT TO CALL CLAUDINE GAY A PLAGIARIST



A political-science professor wrestles with his role in the drama surrounding
the former Harvard president.

By Emma Green


THE GHOST OF JANUARY 6TH HAUNTS 2024



The impending Biden-vs.-Trump rematch already has one dominant theme.

By Susan B. Glasser


VINIE BURROWS’S MANY LIVES



Remembering the activism and artistry of a New York theatre hero.

By Helen Shaw


JOE BIDEN MAKES SAVING DEMOCRACY THE CENTER OF HIS CAMPAIGN



The President and his team are framing the 2024 race as a binary choice between
him and an authoritarian Donald Trump.

By John Cassidy


WHAT’S BEHIND ISRAEL’S CRACKDOWN IN THE WEST BANK?



The Palestinian political analyst Ibrahim Dalalsha on the politics behind the
violence and settlement expansion since October 7th.

By Isaac Chotiner


COULD A TRUMP WIN PUT HIS RUNNING MATE IN OFFICE?



Senate Republicans’ brief in the Supreme Court surprisingly argues just that.

By Jeannie Suk Gersen

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The Political Scene


HOW TRUMP CAPTURED IOWA’S RELIGIOUS RIGHT

The state’s evangelical voters were once skeptical of the former President. Now
they are among his strongest supporters.

By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

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A Critic at Large


WHAT FRANTZ FANON AND IAN FLEMING AGREED ON

From opposite directions, the revolutionary intellectual and the creator of
James Bond saw violence as essential—psychologically and strategically—to
solving the crisis of colonialism.

By Daniel Immerwahr

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THE CRITICS

The Front Row


THE SECRET FUEL THAT MAKES “FERRARI” SUCH A TRIUMPH



Michael Mann’s sublime bio-pic shows that Enzo Ferrari was a man after Mann’s
own heart.

By Richard Brody

Dancing


HOW CLASSICAL IS INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE?



Performers like Bijayini Satpathy, a star of the Odissi style, are interrogating
the nationalist and colonial legacies embedded in India’s dance traditions.

By Jennifer Homans

Musical Events


THE SONIC REVOLUTIONS OF GEORGE LEWIS



As composer, improviser, electronic pioneer, and scholar, Lewis is one of the
major musical minds of our time.

By Alex Ross

Critics at Large


PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST



Hollywood’s depictions of artists have often presented romanticized, florid
pictures of the lives they lead. A new wave of films about creatives complicates
that fantasy.

With Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz

The Theatre


BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS, ON BROADWAY AT LAST



Starring a Peak TV supercast, the playwright’s “Appropriate” investigates a
dysfunctional Southern family’s buried secrets.

By Helen Shaw

Books


HOW CAMILLE PISSARRO WENT FROM MEDIOCRITY TO MAGNIFICENCE



He began as more of a tutor than a talent. But in his final decade he lent a
keen eye-in-the-sky view to the Paris streets, rendering miracles of kinetic
characterization.

By Adam Gopnik

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The Weekend Essay


THE LEGEND OF THE SELMER MARK VI

A horn that hasn’t been made for decades dominates the imaginations of saxophone
players, including me. What magic, if any, does it hold?

By Chris Almeida

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AFTERMATH OF THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTION

It’s been three years since Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. The
events of that day are now shaping the 2024 election.


CHRONICLE OF AN ATTACK FORETOLD



Luke Mogelson’s report from the assault on the Capitol and the election denial
that preceded it.

January 15, 2021


WHAT SHOULD WE CALL THE SIXTH OF JANUARY?



Jill Lepore on the scramble to define a day of anarchy that challenges the
terminology of history.

January 8, 2021


THE MEANING OF THE JANUARY 6TH REPORT



David Remnick on the congressional report that established a historical record
of a coördinated assault on democracy.

December 22, 2022


UNCHARTED TERRITORY



Amy Davidson Sorkin on the Colorado ruling to disqualify Trump from the
Presidential election, and the potential for electoral confusion.

December 21, 2023

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Persons of Interest


A SLEATER-KINNEY ALBUM MUTATED BY GRIEF

When writing music after a family tragedy, Carrie Brownstein says, “everything
had to rear its head.”

By Hanif Abdurraqib

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PERSONS OF INTEREST


HOW SCOTT FRANK FOUND HIS OWN VOICE

By Patrick Radden Keefe


DANIELLE BROOKS COMES FULL CIRCLE

By Doreen St. Félix


JUSTIN TORRES’S ART OF EXPOSURE AND CONCEALMENT

By Katy Waldman


HOW LEA YPI DEFINES FREEDOM

By Han Zhang

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Annals of Technology


WHAT WE LOST WHEN TWITTER BECAME X

As a former Twitter employee, I watched Elon Musk undermine one of the
Internet’s most paradoxical, special places.

By Sheon Han

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IDEAS


LIVE AND LET DIE



By keeping cats outdoors, trap-neuter-release policies favored by the No Kill
movement create troubling consequences.

By Jonathan Franzen


THE RISE OF POLYAMORY



Consensual non-monogamy is now the stuff of Park Slope marriages and prestige
television.

By Jennifer Wilson


TIPPING POINTS



Paying extra for service has inspired rebellions. Post-pandemic, gratuity
culture has entered a new stage.

By Zach Helfand


WHEN PHILOSOPHERS BECOME THERAPISTS



The philosophical-counselling movement aims to apply heady, logical insights to
daily life.

By Nick Romeo

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U.S. Journal


THE CALIFORNIA TOWN OWNED BY A NEW YORK INVESTMENT FIRM

Scotia was created, a century and a half ago, so that lumberjacks could live
near the trees they cut down. Its current owners have been trying for more than
a decade to bring new residents to town.

By Michael Waters

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A PALESTINIAN POET’S PERILOUS JOURNEY OUT OF GAZA

Following Hamas’s October 7th attack and Israel’s invasion, Mosab Abu Toha fled
his home with his wife and three children. Then I.D.F. soldiers took him into
custody.

By Mosab Abu Toha

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THE WORLD’S FASTEST ROAD CARS

“Hypercars” can approach or even exceed 300 m.p.h. Often costing millions of
dollars, they’re ostentatious trophies—and sublime engines of innovation.

By Ed Caesar

American Chronicles



WHAT HAPPENS TO A SCHOOL SHOOTER’S SISTER?

Twenty-five years ago, Kristin Kinkel’s brother, Kip, killed their parents and
opened fire at their high school. Today, she is close with Kip—and still
reckoning with his crimes.

By Jennifer Gonnerman

Profiles



HOW TO BUILD A BETTER MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

The upstart motivator Jesse Itzler wants to reform his profession—while also
rising to the top.

By Tad Friend


FICTION


“THE BEACH HOUSE”



By Joy Williams

Illustration by Mia Bergeron
She was hoping he would leave her the beach house, counting on this actually,
though he had told her he wasn’t going to. He’d said he would be leaving it to
an organization that offered sanctuary to abandoned German shepherds, but that
had to be a joke, right? The German shepherds wouldn’t be quartered in the beach
house; rather, the shabby but invaluable property would be sold.Continue reading
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The Writer’s Voice

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THE TALK OF THE TOWN

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BROADWAY VS. THE PEDICABS

By Michael Schulman

Dept. of Song



MAN OF TWO THOUSAND TRACKS

By Nick Paumgarten

Coffee Nation



THE WORLD CUP OF COFFEE!

By D. T. Max

The Pictures



LEE GRANT LAUGHS LAST

By Alexandra Schwartz

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DAILY CARTOON

“I wish it didn’t feel like all of my hopes and dreams were dependent on a bunch
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