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The Work You Do, the Person You Are
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The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed.
on Sep 2
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 15th
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“You think they know something we don’t?”
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The Naïveté Behind Post-Election Despair
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What sort of reply can one offer to a person who has already decided that the world ends here?
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Republican Victory and the Ambience of Information
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For years, Democrats have sought to win elections by micro-targeting communities with detailed facts. What if the secret is big, sloppy notions seeded nationwide?
on Wed, 12PM
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“Terrorists in Retirement” Brings Wartime Traumas Back to Life
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With in-depth interviews and startling reënactments, the director Mosco Boucault details the anguish and the heroism of a mainly Jewish group of French Resistance fighters.
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Five Thought Experiments Concerning the Underlying Disease
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Our civic wells are poisoned. Why?
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What Russia and Ukraine Want from a Second Trump Presidency
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The Trump Administration will likely take the lead in any negotiations to end the war—a development that Vladimir Putin would welcome.
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The Elegiac Art of Robert Frank
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Also: Rachel Syme samples opulent advent calendars, Helen Shaw reviews “Tammy Faye” and “A Wonderful World,” “Emilia Pérez” is streaming, and more.
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“Say Nothing” Is a Gripping Drama of Political Disillusionment
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The FX adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book captures both the allure of the I.R.A.’s cause and the way violence comes to weigh on its perpetrators.
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A Woman Wonders If She’s Human in “I’m Not a Robot”
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In Victoria Warmerdam’s short film, a series of failed CAPTCHA tests plunges a woman into a strange new reality.
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The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention
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The art endures partly because it’s rooted in the moment—the surrender of one person to another.
on Mon, 12PM
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The Unexpected Pleasures of a Dirty Soda
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Fountain drinks spiked with syrups, creamers, and fruit purées became a sensation among Mormon mothers in Utah. Now they’re finding fans across America.
on Oct 21
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Contemporary cycling is all about spandex and personal bests. The bicycle designer Grant Petersen has amassed an ardent following by urging people to get comfortable bikes, and go easy.
on Sep 16
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America!: J. D. Vance’s Early Art-House Films Discovered
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Notable movies include “Cat Ladies,” “Stolen Valorian,” and “Awkward Daddy Stuff.”
on Sep 6
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, September 5th
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“It’s finally Taylor Swift Watching Football season.”
on Sep 5
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Covering the Election in Spanish for a Latino Audience
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Spain’s El País ventures into the world’s fifth-largest Spanish-speaking country: the United States.
on Sep 5
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An Austrian heiress recruited fifty people from all walks of life to redistribute twenty-five million euros—if they could agree on how to spend it.
on Sep 3
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The Forgotten History of Sex in America
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Today’s battles over issues like gender nonconformity and reproductive rights have antecedents that have been lost or suppressed. What can we learn from them?
on Aug 28
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Fitzcarraldo Editions Makes Challenging Literature Chic
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In ten years, the London publishing house has amassed devoted readers—and four writers with Nobel Prizes.
on Jul 1
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The Florida Republican is among the most brazen and controversial figures in Donald Trump’s G.O.P. He’s also among the most influential.
on Feb 21
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Sentenced to Life for an Accident Miles Away
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A draconian legal doctrine called felony murder has put thousands of Americans—disproportionately young and Black—in prison.
on Dec 17
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Why the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza Is Worse Than It’s Ever Been
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As “imminent” famine looms, Israel’s legislature has voted to ban the main U.N. relief agency for Palestinians.
on Thu, 8PM
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 14th
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America, meet your top Cabinet picks.
on Thu, 5PM
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A New Rallying Cry for the Irony-Poisoned Right
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It took less than twenty-four hours after Trump’s reëlection for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of gendered regression: “Your body, my choice.”
on Thu, 12PM
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The Gorgeous Mumbai Rhapsody of “All We Imagine as Light”
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Payal Kapadia’s drama of women’s solidarity, a major prizewinner at Cannes, pays radiant homage to a city and its people.
on Thu, 12PM
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“Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!” and “Gatz” Beat On Against the Current
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The playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the performance artist Alina Troyano summon downtown’s wild spirit, and Elevator Repair Service revives its signature hit.
on Thu, 11AM
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What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?
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Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.
on Thu, 9AM
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A new European Union law is a road map for how to put the onus on social-media companies to monitor and remove harmful content, and hit them with big fines if they don’t.
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What Does Tulsi Gabbard Believe?
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The making of a charismatic, unorthodox Democrat.
on Thu, 1AM
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The tech billionaire’s alliance with the President-elect has far-reaching implications for the incoming Administration.
on Thu, 1AM
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Annette Gordon-Reed on the Dark Side of the American Story
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The morning after the election, the historian discussed some books that shed light on the precedents for our fractured political moment.
on Wed, 10PM
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How R.E.M. Created Alternative Music
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In the cultural wasteland of the Reagan era, they showed that a band could break through to mass appeal without being cheesy, or nostalgic, or playing hair metal.
on Wed, 10PM
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Pete Hegseth’s Path from Campus Provocateur to Fox to the Pentagon
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No decision more clearly reveals Donald Trump’s disdain for his country’s armed forces than his selection of the TV host as his Secretary of Defense.
on Wed, 8PM
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“Goodbye, Morganza” Follows the Legacy of a Black Family’s Property Loss
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Devon Blackwell’s short documentary explores how her great-grandparents lost the house they had owned since 1892, and the impact of that loss on generations of her family.
on Wed, 12PM
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William Whitworth’s 1970 profile of Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. “A perfectionist in an imperfect world, he dreams of fried chicken so golden and delicious that it will bring tears to the eyes of a grown man.”
on Wed, 7AM
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The Capitol is breached. Security cameras catch Senator Josh Hawley running in fear from a passel of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ activists attempting to garland him in Pride bunting.
on Tue, 9PM
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 12th
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”I know it’s early, but it makes me believe we’ll make it to Christmas.”
on Tue, 3PM
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Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” Is Shakespeare for the Youth
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Gold, a celebrated Shakespeare director, designed his theatre production for a young audience. “It’s loud. I’m willing to hear the complaints, because I have risk tolerance,” he said.
on Tue, 12PM
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A Grandson’s Urgent Chronicle of Family Life in Small-Town Ohio
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In Adali Schell’s “New Paris,” which documents his family in the aftermath of death and divorce, individuals are more complicated than the worst thing happening to them.
on Tue, 12PM
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The Election Was About the Issues After All
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The fifteen-dollar minimum wage, a core progressive issue, won ballot measures in red states. Why have Democrats stopped pushing for it?
on Tue, 11AM
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“Emilia Pérez” Is an Incurious Musical About a Trans Drug Lord
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The performances of Karla Sofía Gascón and Zoe Saldaña bring energy and emotion, but the movie never gets beyond its splashy surfaces.
on Tue, 12AM
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Brittany Howard’s Transformation
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On her way to becoming a solo artist, the lead singer of Alabama Shakes experimented with genre and figured out living without shame.
on Mon, 7PM
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The Intensely Colorful Work of a Painter Obsessed with Anime
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In a London warehouse pumping with dance music and movie soundtracks, Jadé Fadojutimi paints exuberant canvases all night long.
on Mon, 12PM
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At COP29, the Sun Sets on U.S. Climate Leadership
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Just how bad a second Trump Administration will be for climate policy remains to be seen, but the most likely scenarios are all pretty bleak.
on Mon, 12PM
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A Début Novel Captures the Start of India’s Modi Era
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In “Quarterlife,” Devika Rege uses three very different protagonists to explore the country’s ideological ferment—setting them first at play, then at war.
on Mon, 12PM