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The Return of Lorde
Four years after her debut album, the pop prodigy is back with a testimonial to heartbreak and solitude.
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I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong.
A historian of conservatism looks back at how he and his peers failed to anticipate the rise of the president.
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Inside Turkey’s Purge
As the ruling party expands the ranks of its enemies, life in a fragile democracy becomes stranger and stranger.
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Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck
From “Idiocracy” to “Silicon Valley,” the writer and director has established himself as America’s foremost chronicler of its own self-destructive tendencies.
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First Words
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CreditIllustration by Javier Jaén New Technology Is Built on a ‘Stack.’ Is That the Best Way to Understand Everything Else, Too?
People from nutrition geeks to philosophers are using a metaphor from software to describe the world.
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On Photography
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In a period of global uncertainty, some Japanese photographers offer new ways of seeing.
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New Sentences
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CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton New Sentences: From ‘Ballplayer,’ by Chipper Jones
So much of what is worthwhile requires us to choose discomfort.
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Talk
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CreditAndrew T. Warman for The New York Times Dan Rather Thinks We Need Patriotism, Not Nationalism
The former news anchor on new media, quality journalism and “Friday Night Lights.”
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Letter of Recommendation
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Most complaints against imitations depend on a hard nature-versus-art distinction, one that never really holds up.
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CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times A Spring Dish to Bring You Back to Life
When a long winter leaves you feeling depressed and deprived, let this bright and warm avgolemono rice revive you.
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The Ethicist
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on cognitive disability and the nature of consent, and what an employee owes to an employer.
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Judge John Hodgman
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CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton Judge John Hodgman on Feeding Turkeys Cheetos
Where do we draw the line on judging people — or creatures — by the virtue of their diets?
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