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    Talk

    Can the U.S. See the Truth About China?

    The economist Keyu Jin argues that if it can’t, “peaceful coexistence may not be possible.”

     By David Marchese

  2. The Voyages Issue

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    CreditNaila Ruechel for The New York Times

    Seeking the Spirited, Mystical Jamaica Tourists Don’t See

    A photographer’s journey through her native spiritual landscape of Jamaica, where Christian and Afro-centric traditions blend.

     Photographs by Naila Ruechel and Text by Nicole Dennis-Benn

  4. Screenland

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    The Problem With Celebrity Travel Shows? The Celebrities.

    What used to be meaningfully informative programming, delivered by personable but only tangentially notable hosts, is gradually being swallowed up.

     By Nicholas Cannariato

  5. Eat

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    CreditChris Simpson for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas.

    The Best Biscuits Outside of the South

    These uniquely layered, pillowy biscuits get a caramelized crust from a bit of extra sugar.

     By Eric Kim

  1. Judge John on Hodgman on What Really Counts as a Hobby

    A Scattergories play opens up a debate on what’s a genuine way to pass the time.

    By John Hodgman

     

  2. Poem: 88 Days

    An awe-struck, awful, careening sensation of loss is held in place by the weight of language itself.

    By Anthony Robinson and Anne Boyer

     

  3. The Ethicist

    My Son Is in Prison Again. What Do I Owe Him?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the obligations parents have to their adult children.

    By Kwame Anthony Appiah

     

  4. Letter of Recommendation

    The Robots Can’t Take Taxi-Whistling Away From Me

    A relic of a pleasure in the face of relentless modernity.

    By Jon Gluck

     

  5. Talk

    Your Data Is Diminishing Your Freedom

    “We’re loading our lives into these systems and feeling we have no control of how these systems work,” warns the political theorist Colin Koopman.

    By David Marchese

     

  6. The Ethicist

    My Ex Refuses to Delete Images of My Father’s Corpse. What Can I Do?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on a former partner’s keeping sensitive photos after a breakup.

    By Kwame Anthony Appiah

     

  7. Poem: [All things now remind me]

    This poem is a heartbreaker for all who know or will know soon enough what it is like to once have been “young and desirous” and to be those things no more.

    By Diane Seuss and Anne Boyer

     

  8. Judge John Hodgman on Mom’s Military Time

    A family has trouble syncing into a schedule on the 24-hour clock.

    By John Hodgman

     

  9. The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes

    A century ago, Thomas Midgley Jr. was responsible for two phenomenally destructive innovations. What can we learn from them today?

    By Steven Johnson

     

  10. The Ethicist

    I’m Worried My Neighbors Are Neglecting Their Child. What Should I Do?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on intervening in another family’s child-rearing.

    By Kwame Anthony Appiah