Edition: U.S. / Global
December 21, 2014
Illustration by Matt Dorfman. Photograph of Marissa Mayer by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg, via Getty Images.
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Can Liberal Zionists Count On Hillary Clinton?

With Israel turning rightward and U.S. politicians following, what’s a left-leaning American Jewish voter to do?

What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs

The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.

Mount Kenya’s Vanishing Glaciers

With camera and torch in hand, the British photographer Simon Norfolk casts climate change's inexorable advance in a new light.

The Unbreakable Laura Hillenbrand

Racked for years by a mysterious illness, the author of “Seabiscuit” and “Unbroken” has defied the odds to write indelible works of history.

Old Masters at the Top of Their Game

After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign.

What Happens When Second Graders Are Treated to a Seven-Course, $220 Tasting Meal

Students from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn learn the fine points of French cuisine at one of New York’s poshest restaurants.

Photo Essay
Rise and Shine

What do kids around the world eat for breakfast? It’s as likely to be coffee or kimchi as it is a sugary cereal.

Forty Portraits in Forty Years

The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.

Look
Let a Hundred McMansions Bloom

Converting Chinese rice fields into luxury villas.

Photo Essay
The Women of West Point

Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.


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