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1.22.17 Issue

Highlights

  1. Feature

    To Obama With Love, and Hate, and Desperation

    Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation.

     By Jeanne Marie Laskas

    Sorted letters at the Office of Presidential Correspondence.
    CreditDamon Winter/The New York Times
  3. Photo Essay

    Where Americans Still Stand Together

    A year of photographs from parades on the nation's streets, where communities become visible to themselves.

     Photographs by George Georgiou

    CreditGeorge Georgiou for The New York Times
  4. Feature

    Who Decides Who Counts as Native American?

    Four years ago, the Nooksack in Washington State announced that they were expelling hundreds of members, setting off a bitter debate over tribal identity.

     By Brooke Jarvis

    Adelina Narte-Parker, one of the Nooksack 306, at her home in Indianola, Wash.
    CreditPeter van Agtmael/Magnum, for The New York Times

  1. When the National Bird Is a Burden

    Bald eagles have been the emblem of the United States for more than two centuries. Now, in some parts of the country, they’re a nuisance.

     By Wyatt Williams

    CreditIllustration by Kelsey Dake
    Feature

  2. Politics’ Newest Empty Gesture: The Disavowal

    It’s a modern ritual to insist that public figures “disavow” unseemly opinions, connections and supporters. But when that gesture is a halfhearted performance, how could it count?

     By Wesley Morris

    CreditPhoto illustration by Javier Jaén
    First Words

  3. Hunting for Unicorns in the N.B.A.

    Glimpsing the future of basketball as both sport and marketing enterprise in the moves of seven-foot wonder athletes.

     By Jay Caspian Kang

    CreditPhoto illustration by Cristiana Couceiro
    On Sports

  4. Letter of Recommendation: Hot-Water Bottles

    You will find the vessel powerfully restorative, belying its status as an artifact too unsexy and unfashionable to be advertised.

     By Chantel Tattoli

    A dowdy, old-timey cure-all that still has its charms.
    CreditGrant Cornett for The New York Times
    Letter of Recommendation

  5. Carla Hayden Thinks Libraries Are a Key to Freedom

    The 14th librarian of Congress on radical librarians and how information literacy can combat fake news.

     Interview by Ana Marie Cox

    Carla Hayden
    CreditStephen Voss for The New York Times
    Talk

  1. A Grandmother’s Secret Turmeric Prescription

    A morning tea ritual to cure what ails you.

     By Tejal Rao

    Turmeric Tea
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    Eat

  2. What Should a Congregation Have Told a Betrayed Wife?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the responsibility of a community in a member’s time of need, when to push back on friends’ vile online commentary and more.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  3. Judge John Hodgman on Stealing Karaoke Songs

    There’s nothing worse than being beat to your go-to hit.

     By John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton
    Judge John Hodgman

  4. From ‘The Yellow House’

    Selected by Matthew Zapruder.

     By Chiwan Choi

    CreditIllustration by R.O. Blechman
    Poem

  5. How to Build a Terrarium

    You can use an old mayonnaise jar. Dig in.

     By Jaime Lowe

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

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