God Called Them to Adopt. And Adopt. And Adopt.
By MAGGIE JONES
When responding to a calling to take in foster children, how do you know when you’ve done enough?
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11.17.13
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The Impossible Refugee Boat Lift to Christmas Island
By LUKE MOGELSON
More than a thousand refugees have died trying to reach Christmas Island. But faced with unbearable conditions at home, they keep coming.
What Is the Value of Stolen Art?
By ED CAESAR
Making money from stolen paintings — particularly famous ones — is not a straightforward matter.
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Simon & Schuster & Jeter
November 15, 2013
A Spectator’s View of J.F.K.’s Funeral Procession
November 14, 2013
An Old Guitar Finds New Life on the Internet
November 13, 2013
Diagnosis
Gut-Wrenching
By LISA SANDERS, M.D.
A woman suffers bouts of extreme abdominal pain that come and go and come again.
It’s the Economy
Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive
By ANNIE LOWREY
The simplest welfare program imaginable: an income for everyone, no strings attached.
Talk
Mayor Ed Lee: ‘Tech Workers Are Not Robots’
Interview by WILLY STALEY
The mayor of San Francisco on the Twitter economy.
Post a CommentInnovation
Who Made That Redskins Logo?
By DANIEL ENGBER
It wasn’t the first time that professional sports co-opted American Indian culture. (And it wasn’t the last.)
The One-Page Magazine
Deflating Tesco’s Blow-Up Friend
A-Rod reality TV; rejected baby names; Bellamy Young’s leonine streak.
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From The Archive
Looking for Their Children’s Birth Mothers
Maggie Jones’s 2007 article about women like her looking for the birth mothers of their adopted children.
Editors' Picks
All Is Fair in Love and Twitter
By NICK BILTON
The sweet, innocent ideas and ruthless power plays that created Twitter.
Could New York City Subways Survive Another Hurricane?
By ROBERT SULLIVAN
It helps that the transit workers have been at it so long — and have access to a lot of plywood.
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
By PETER MAASS
It all started with her own fight against surveillance.
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The Posh London Homes That Posh Londoners Covet
By SARAH LYALL
Wishing a friend’s house or apartment was yours isn’t only an American trait. A chain of envy from across the pond.
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Who’s Winning the Architecture Arms Race?
Hint: It’s the place spending an estimated $6 billion a year on it.
