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The City Where Coetzee Is God

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0000

Searching for the Nobel laureate in Cape Town, the city he left behind.

By Gary Shteyngart

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The Forgotten Female Pilots of World War II

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0000

The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military service.

By Ellen Cushing

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The College-Educated Working Class

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0000

Can a generation of graduates frustrated by their economic prospects change American labor politics?

By George Packer

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What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0000

The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?

By Jacob Stern

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The Last Days of Franco

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0000

Montserrat Roig’s classic novel captures Barcelona on the cusp of unimaginable change.

By Colm Tóibín

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Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0000

The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.

By Matteo Wong

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Robyn Is Still Dancing On Her Own

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:00:00 -0000

On her first album in eight years, Robyn reckons with motherhood and midlife desire.

By Spencer Kornhaber

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Sucker

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:00:00 -0000

My year as a degenerate gambler.

By McKay Coppins

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The Unbearable Lightness of Signalgate

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:00:00 -0000

Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences.

By Jeffrey Goldberg

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠April 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Vigdis Hjorth's Family Secrets

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:00:00 -0000

The wildly popular Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth returns to a dark past.

By Honor Jones

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠April 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Leaving the United States Behind

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:00:00 -0000

The Cruz family spent years building a life in New York. Then the risks of staying became too great.

By Caitlin Dickerson

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠April 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The Cost of Being Uninsured

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:00:00 -0000

My aunt couldn’t afford to go to the hospital. She ended up there anyway.

By Jenisha Watts

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠April 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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That 1930s Feeling

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:36:00 -0000

How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?

By Tom Nichols

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠April 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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How Toni Morrison Saw History

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0000

In a new study, Namwali Serpell describes how the novelist located the missing stories of Black America.

By Judith Shulevitz

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Rod Dreher's Demons

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0000

The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.

By Robert F. Worth

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The Plot Against Humanities

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0000

Is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation the last best hope for American arts and letters—or is it killing them?

By Tyler Austin Harper

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Why Do Democrats Hate Winning?

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0000

They say they want to save democracy. First they’ll need to get out of their own way.

By Mark Leibovich

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The Madness of Lord Tennyson

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0000

Why Alfred, Lord Tennyson feels so modern.

By James Parker.

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The Novel as Extended Op-Ed

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:00:00 -0000

If anyone could write good fiction about immigration, it would probably be Lionel Shriver. Instead, her latest book goes off the rails.

By Adelle Waldman.

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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America Isn't Ready For What AI Will Do to Jobs

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0000

Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?

By Josh Tyrangiel

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The End of Public Health

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 -0000

The health of a nation reflects the health of a democracy.

By Vann R. Newkirk II

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Deadlier Than Gettysburg

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:00:00 -0000

How the cruelty of the Confederacy’s prison camps gave rise to the rules of war

By Drew Gilpin Faust

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The Secrets of Indigenous Art

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:00:00 -0000

Major exhibitions are upending the way people understand Native American and Aboriginal artists.

By Susan Tallman

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The Man Who Broke Physics

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:00:00 -0000

Even before competing in his first Olympics, 21-year-old Ilia Malinin has transformed the sport of figure skating.

By Sally Jenkins

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Never Say No

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0000

How the attorney general became a person who loves telling Trump yes

By Stephanie McCrummen

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Every Nation for Itself

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0000

President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

By Robert Kagan

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠March 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Who Gets to Be Indian—And Who Decides?

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0000

The very American story of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance

By David Treuer

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Sense of an Ending

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0000

His fiction has found meaning in life’s gaps and love’s absence.

By Adam Begley

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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How Bad Bunny Did It

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0000

The Super Bowl headliner doesn’t care if you understand his lyrics.

By Spencer Kornhaber

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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I’m Not From the Government but I’m Here to Help

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0000

My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms

By Alexandra Petri

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Foolery, Foppery, and Finery

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0000

America went to extraordinary lengths to throw off the rituals and titles of monarchy. Why would we fall for royal trappings today?

By Jake Lundberg

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The New History of Fighting Slavery

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0000

What we learn by tracing rebellions from Africa to the Americas

By Laurent Dubois

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Grounded

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:02:00 -0000

How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions

By Ross Andersen

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Is This What Patriotism Looks Like?

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0000

January 6, five years later

By Jamie Thompson

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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What Dante Is Trying to Tell Us

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0000

A colloquial translation of Paradiso might make people actually read it.

By Eric Bulson

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The Triumph of Indecency

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:25:00 -0000

The movement claims to stand with the police. Trump’s decision to pardon the cop-beaters of January 6 exposed his movement for what it is.

By Jeffrey Goldberg

From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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What Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Understand About Lolita

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0000

Everything.

By Graeme Wood

From the ⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠.

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Postcolonial Chicken

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0000

A fast-growing Filipino chain is serving burgers and chicken that seem like typical American fare—until you taste them.

By Yasmin Tayag

From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠.

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Bring Back the Neocons

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0000

Not about Iraq. But the moral tenor of their political writings could be an antidote to Trumpism.

By David Brooks

From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠.

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The Mystery of Mohammad Tajik

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0000

A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he would reveal his country’s secrets. Then he disappeared.

By Shane Harris

From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠.

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You Had to Be There

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0000

The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow

By Gal Beckerman

From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠.

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Accommodation Nation

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0000

America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.

By Rose Horowitch

From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠.

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The New German War Machine

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0000

After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again.

By Isaac Stanley-Becker

From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠.

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How Terror Works

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:50:00 -0000

And the Germans who didn’t

By Hillary Kelly

From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠.

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Respect the Drummer

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0000

It’s about the flow of Time, not just keeping the beat.

By James Parker

From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠.

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What’s For Dinner, Mom?

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0000

How the politics of food brought together the crunchy left and the trad right

By Sophie Gilbert

From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠.

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Yesterday’s Idea of a Modern Man

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0000

The actor, playwright, and self-made cowboy was also a poet of masculine angst.

By Michael O’Donnell

From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠.

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The Most Powerful Man in Science

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0000

How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science

By Michael Scherer

From the ⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠.

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The Dead Zones

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0000

Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

By Vann R. Newkirk II

From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠.

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Wheels Up

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0000

What the photographer found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia

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We Are Not One

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0000

A short story

By George Packer

From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠.

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The Missing Kayaker

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0000

What happened to Ryan Borgwardt?

By Jamie Thompson

From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠.

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Get a Real Friend

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0000

The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.

By Damon Beres

From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠.

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The Man Who Rescued Faulkner

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0000

How the critic Malcolm Cowley made American literature into its own great tradition

By Michael Gorra

From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠.

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Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 04:00:00 -0000

Nearing 80, the punk poet reflects on the twists in her story that have surprised even her.

By Amy Weiss-Meyer

From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠.

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The Last of the Literary Outdoorsmen

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:00:00 -0000

What will we lose when we lose the “literary outdoorsman”?

By Tyler Austin Harper

From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠.

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President for Life

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:43:00 -0000

Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.

By J. Michael Luttig

From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠.

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The Coming Election Mayhem

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

By David A. Graham

From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠.

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The Realist Magic of Philip Pullman

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:42:00 -0000

In his fiction, the author of The Golden Compass tells us how to love this world. It isn’t easy.

By Lev Grossman

From the ⁠December 2025 issue⁠.

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America Needs Patriotism

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

I want to feel, as Walt Whitman did, that America and democracy are inextricable.

By George Packer

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The Rising

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

By David Brooks

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The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

By Anne Applebaum

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America’s Most Famous Nap

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Washington Irving’s story isn’t just about a very long nap. It’s about the making of America.

By John Swansburg

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Lincoln’s Revolution

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

How he used America’s past to rescue its future

By Jake Lundberg

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The Many Lives of Eliza Schuyler

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.

By Jane Kamensky

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What the Founders Would Say Now

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000

They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.

By Fintan O’Toole

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The 27th Grievance

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

By Ned Blackhawk

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Just How Real Should Colonial Williamsburg Be?

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.

By Clint Smith

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The Moral Foundation of America

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s worth preserving.

By Elaine Pagels

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Whose Independence?

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0000

The question of what Jefferson meant by “all men” has defined American law and politics for too long.

By Annette Gordon-Reed

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We Hold These Turkeys to Be Delicious

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

What the Founding Fathers ate—and drank—on July 4, 1777

By Victoria Flexner

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Secrets of a Radical Duke

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

How a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence unlocked a historical mystery

By Danielle Allen

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Into the Breeches

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.

By Caity Weaver

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The Black Loyalists

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.

By Andrew Lawler

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Dear Son

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

One of the most influential and ardent Patriots couldn’t persuade his son to join the Revolution.

By Stacy Schiff

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How Do You Film the Revolution?

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:30:00 -0000

The co-directors of the new PBS series describe how they made a documentary about a war distant in time and shrouded in myth.

By Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt

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Why Concord?

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000

The geological origins of the American Revolution

By Robert A. Gross and Robert M. Thorson

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The Myth of Mad King George

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:13:00 -0000

He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?

By Rick Atkinson

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The Greatest Fight of All Time

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 -0000

The Thrilla in Manila nearly killed Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

By Vann R. Newkirk II

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The Invention of Judd Apatow

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:32:00 -0000

How a kid from Long Island willed his way to the top of American comedy

By Adrienne LaFrance

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Whither the Dictionary?

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:01:00 -0000

Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful

By Stefan Fatsis

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This Was Spinal Tap

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 -0000

Forty years after Spinal Tap, history’s most hapless band turns it up to 11 one last time.

By James Parker

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John Cheever’s Secrets

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:08:00 -0000

In a new memoir, Susan Cheever searches for the wellspring of her father’s genius.

By Adam Begley

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Songs of Herself

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:53:00 -0000

The tidiest explanation for the pop star’s success is that she befriended an underestimated audience of girls and young women. That’s only part of the story.

By Spencer Kornhaber

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The Neighbor From Hell

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 -0000

Israel and the United States delivered a blow to Iran. But it could come back stronger.

By Graeme Wood

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The Ghost of Lady Murasaki

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 06:25:00 -0000

A thousand years ago, Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji, the world’s first novel. Who was she?

By Lauren Groff

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You Deserved Better

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:03:00 -0000

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

By William J. Burns

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Canada Is Killing Itself

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000

The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand.

By Elaina Plott Calabro

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The Judgments of Muriel Spark

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:29:00 -0000

The novelist liked playing God—a very capricious one.

By Judith Shulevitz

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The Forgotten Still-Life Prodigy

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000

The 17th-century painter Rachel Ruysch was once more famous than Vermeer.

By Zachary Fine

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Going Back

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000

What home meant before, and after, Hurricane Katrina

By Clint Smith

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My Father’s Work

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000

When the greatest musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad was there.

By Nancy Walecki

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Captain Ron’s Guide to Fearless Flying

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000

The pilot who calms the nerves of anxious fliers

By Elaine Godfrey

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This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000

Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.

By Anne Applebaum

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Mrs. Dalloway’s Midlife Crisis

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000

Virginia Woolf’s wild run of creativity in her 40s included writing her masterpiece on the terrors and triumphs of middle age.

By Hillary Kelly

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Playing Mailman

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000

A new book describes the challenges and joys of life as a letter carrier.

By Tyler Austin Harper

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Why Marriage Survives

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 04:00:00 -0000

The institution has adapted, and is showing new signs of resilience.

By Brad Wilcox

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The Man Who Ate NASA

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:34:00 -0000

The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.

By Franklin Foer

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Chasing le Carré in Corfu

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:33:00 -0000

If you’re trying to find someone who doesn’t want to be found, you don’t go to the obvious places.

By Honor Jones

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Sexting With Gemini

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:20:00 -0000

Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?

By Lila Shroff

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Damn You All to Hell!

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:17:00 -0000

How Hollywood taught a generation to fear nuclear catastrophe

By Tom Nichols

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The Expatriate

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:00 -0000

How Joseph Kurihara lost his faith in America

By Andrew Aoyama

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The Nuclearization of East Asia

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:36:00 -0000

As American power recedes, South Korea, Japan, and a host of other countries may pursue the bomb.

By Ross Andersen

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The Warrior Myth

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:00:00 -0000

Lethality alone doesn’t win wars.

By Mike Nelson

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My Personal War on Plastic

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000

My futile quest to avoid the material that my entire world is made out of

By Annie Lowrey

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Lamentations

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:00:00 -0000

A short story

By Nicole Krauss

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The High Art of Pro Wrestling

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:54:00 -0000

Pro-wrestling—and America?—were never the same.

By James Parker

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Vonnegut and the Bomb

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:00:00 -0000

How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke

By Noah Hawley

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It Has Pockets!

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:00:00 -0000

How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion

By Julia Turner

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American Insomnia

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:00:00 -0000

Insomnia has become a public-health emergency.

By Jennifer Senior

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Nuclear Roulette

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:36:00 -0000

The contours of World War III are visible in numerous conflicts. The president of the United States is not ready.

By Jeffrey Goldberg

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The President’s Weapon

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:10:00 -0000

Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?

By Tom Nichols

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How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:00:00 -0000

At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

By Clint Smith

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The Canonization of James Joyce

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:31:00 -0000

How Richard Ellmann made James Joyce a hero to generations of readers and scholars

By Eric Bulson

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When Mick Jagger Met the King of Zydeco

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:00:00 -0000

How the legendary rock band discovered the music of Clifton Chenier

By Reya Hart

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The World’s Hardest Bluffing Game

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:16:00 -0000

Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?

By Jason Anthony

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The Tracy Anderson Way

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 04:00:00 -0000

How Tracy Anderson built an exercise empire

By Xochitl Gonzalez

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Witness

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:00:00 -0000

What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption

By Elizabeth Bruenig

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Fast Times and Mean Girls

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 04:00:00 -0000

What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence

By Hillary Kelly

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Feudalism Is Our Future

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:00:00 -0000

What the next Dark Ages could look like

By Cullen Murphy

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The Clones Are Here

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 04:00:00 -0000

“Really and truly, a horse can be alive forever. Forever and ever.”

By Bianca Bosker

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How to Look at Paul Gauguin

Sat, 31 May 2025 18:44:00 -0000

He was misunderstood, then adored, then vilified. Who was he really?

By Susan Tallman

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The Talented Mr. Vance

Tue, 27 May 2025 18:16:00 -0000

J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.

By George Packer

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When Buckley Met Baldwin

Wed, 21 May 2025 15:39:00 -0000

In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.

By Sam Tanenhaus

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Lost at Sea

Wed, 21 May 2025 04:00:00 -0000

On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific.

By Alec Frydman

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The Secret to Happiness

Tue, 20 May 2025 22:38:00 -0000

Alison Bechdel has spent a lifetime worrying. In a new graphic novel, she finds something like solace.

By Hanna Rosin

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Return of the Shaman

Tue, 20 May 2025 04:00:00 -0000

How visionary healers became a fixture of contemporary American culture and politics

By James Parker

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Is Ian Still in There?

Sat, 17 May 2025 04:00:00 -0000

For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.

By Sarah Zhang

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How the Chicken Sandwich Conquered America

Mon, 12 May 2025 19:42:00 -0000

The sun is setting on burger dominance.

By Ellen Cushing