Times Documentary: The Trials of Jacob Mach
There’s a Reason They Call Them ‘Crazy Ants’
By JON MOOALLEM
What if you discovered an invasive species that seems drawn to electricity — in your outlets, appliances, laptops and TVs — and no one would listen?
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Jacob Deng Mach training at the Atlanta Police Academy in May 2012
A Lost Boy Grows Up
By KEVIN SACK
12 years after leaving Sudan, a Lost Boy has found that the dream of a better life is both all around and just outside his grasp.
Eat
Not Just for Breakfast Anymore
By MARK BITTMAN
With a few additions, the tiny pancake is one of the easiest — and most satisfying — dishes there is.
Drink
Pour the Port, Hold the Stodginess
By ROSIE SCHAAP
You’re not alone if you think port is only an after-dinner drink, but you’re wrong.
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Ants to Keep Out of Your Pants
December 10, 2013
Behind the Cover Story: Kevin Sack on His Friendship with a Lost Boy
December 9, 2013
Capturing of the Country From the Strut of a Plane
December 8, 2013
This Is What It Looks Like at the Center of America
A photo portolio by Andrew Moore of some of the most sparsely populated regions west of the 100th meridian.
The Ethicist
Costly Mistakes and Voter Suppression
By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Partisan discrimination vs. racial discrimination.
Riff
The Dutch-Elm Disease of Creative Minds
By MARK O’CONNELL
Self-doubt can be a powerful ally in the battle against bad writing. It can also be a powerful obstacle to writing anything at all.
Talk
Lenny Kravitz’s Halfway Mark
Interview by AMY CHOZICK
The musician on his Bed-Stuy nickname, designing condos and living to 100.
The One-Page Magazine
Sarita Choudhury’s Anti-Education
Doctors bumping fists; Sarajevo to St. Louis; J. R. R. Tolkien takes on the Knicks.
Innovation
Who Made That Energy Drink?
By DANIEL ENGBER
The Asian imports that gave us Red Bull, Monster and Rockstar.
The Lives They Loved: Submit Your Memories
By THE STAFF
We invite you to contribute stories and photographs of your loved ones who died this year.
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Editors' Picks
Lee Harvey Oswald Was My Friend
By PAUL GREGORY
Fifty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an academic looks back at the summer that might have changed Oswald’s life.
Where Have All the Sopranos Gone?
By ELIZABETH WEIL
The ever-earlier onset of puberty is reshaping the legendary Leipzig boys choir.
Diagnosis
Gut-Wrenching
A woman suffers bouts of extreme abdominal pain that come and go and come again.
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