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Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice?

After 19-year-old Conor McBride killed his girlfriend, her devastated parents tried a process called “restorative justice” — because they decided his life was worth saving.

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Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend

How the breakout star (and daughter of David) turned “Girls” from a show about a trio to one about a quartet.

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George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year

The brutal, beautiful vision of a great American storyteller.

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It's the Economy

What’s It Gonna Be, 2013?

The United States economy is supposed to approach normal growth this year. Has the recession taught consumers anything?

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The Party Is Not Over

The aftermath of secret gatherings.

The Sweet Smell of Retail

The G.O.P. vs. the Electoral College; Jean Valjean vs. Jean-Claude Van Damme.

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Talk

Jon Huntsman Could Do Without Bill Clinton’s Kudos

The former presidential hopeful says being known as the sane, honest Republican doesn’t play well in primaries.

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Eat

Yukon Gold Standard

There’s more than one way to skin a potato. Here, a dozen of the best.

Solve the popular variety puzzles from the Sunday magazine at our newly relaunched hub for New York Times crosswords.

The One-Page Magazine

The Sweet Smell of Retail

The G.O.P. vs. the Electoral College; Jean Valjean vs. Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Riff

‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’

What’s the value of a million-dollar idea that you never follow up on?

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Design

Who Made That Universal Product Code?

And why didn’t he make it as a circle, as he was supposed to?

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The Ethicist

Does an Honor Code Make It Too Easy to Cheat?

Yes. But that’s the point.

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Lives

My Personal ‘Storage Wars’

I said goodbye to my husband. Could I do the same with his stuff?

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The 12.23.12 Issue

Readers respond.

From the Archive

Sister Sympathy

A 1993 article on Sister Helen Prejean, whose book “Dead Man Walking” is based on her work with death-row inmates.

Multimedia

Video Feature: Wide-Awake

A video gallery of dreams and transformations, featuring 13 actresses whose performances defined the year in film.

Audio & Photos: There Will Be Foam

A sudsy party in Watertown, N.Y.

  • Audio Audio: Alec Soth on Photography and Longing
Diagnosis

A Circus of Pain

Could a terrible headache have been caused by a run-in with a zebra?

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The Music They Made

A sound collage featuring a sampling of the musicians who died in 2012.

Eve Arnold’s Big Wallop

Driven by a social consciousness, she gained the confidence of whomever she photographed.

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