Melinda French Gates Is Ready to Take Sides
The billionaire philanthropist is turning 60, striking out on her own and getting political.
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The billionaire philanthropist is turning 60, striking out on her own and getting political.
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The Democrat talks about the election vibe shift and what a Kamala Harris win would mean for both parties.
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Some conservatives have a grim proposal to make undocumented immigrants leave: Exclude their children from schools.
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Teahupo'o has one of the deadliest surf breaks in the world. Athletes could face waves up to 50 feet.
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Breaking in New Sports at the Olympics
Breaking, sport climbing and skateboarding may seem untraditional, but they embody the true spirit of the games.
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John Hinckley Jr. and the Madness of American Political Violence
Forty-three years ago, he shot the president in a delusional bid for attention — one in a long line of disturbed young men who have bent the arc of the nation’s history.
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Hosting the Olympics Costs Billions. What Does a City Get Back?
The Games are supposed to be a fast track to urban renewal. The reality is often the opposite.
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My Relative Isn’t Trans or Nonbinary But Wants to Use ‘They/Them’ Pronouns.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on allyship and forms of solidarity.
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Judge John Hodgman on Proper Top-Sheet Direction
Can a spouse be compelled to make the bed the right way?
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Does mac and cheese count — if you bake it?
By John Hodgman
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how partners can evaluate their romantic histories together — and be honest and respectful in their assessments.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Can potato peels “wear out” the dark, bladed maw that lives in your sink?
By John Hodgman
A new Faye Dunaway documentary wants to turn us from gossips into cheerleaders.
By Dina Gachman
There’s no magic ingredient. You just need the right preparation.
By Eric Kim
The N.B.A. star talks Philly cheesesteaks, Twitter trolling and playing for Team U.S.A. over France in the Olympics.
By David Marchese
Partisan support for the killing of adversaries is much more widespread than anyone wants to admit.
By Charles Homans
Reed Timmer streams his pursuits of violent weather to millions of followers on social media, inspiring one of the leads in the new film “Twisters.”
By David Gelles
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on genealogy, record-keeping and notions of relation.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the duty one has to neighbors — and a forbidden pet in harm’s way.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Players love recreating memorable images from basketball’s past.
By Ismail Muhammad
Lemon lifts this pasta dish filled with gorgeously rich, smoky tomatoes.
By Yotam Ottolenghi
Its easier to kick off a conversation when you’re sporting some fine footwear.
By Brent Holmes
The goal was to shield our house from the road, but it soon turned into something much more revealing.
By Heidi Julavits
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The author of “Bowling Alone” warned us about social isolation and its effect on democracy a quarter century ago. Things have only gotten worse.
By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the complications of confession.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Looking back on my life as a woman in the music industry, I’m unsettled by the inescapable sexism perpetrated by Sean Combs and others.
By Danyel Smith
Flawed science helped convict Russell Maze more than 20 years ago. The D.A.’s office now says it got it wrong. Why is he still behind bars?
By Pamela Colloff
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the kinds of information that can be burdensome to children.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Over and over, they strain to persuade us that vegetables are healthy — and other things we’ve all known since childhood.
By Nicholas Cannariato
A buttermilk chess pie so good that it has followed a pastry chef around for more than a decade.
By Lisa Donovan
She was involved in a minor car accident three months earlier. Could that somehow be the cause?
By Lisa Sanders, M.D.
We’re told we should get rid of them. But one person’s menace can be another person’s medicine.
By Jennifer Kabat
Fifty years ago, my father’s friend was taken at gunpoint on Long Island. Then he went on with his life — and that’s the part that haunts me.
By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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His “X” trilogy — which culminates with “MaXXXine” — obsesses over cinema, stardom and the industry itself.
By Ryan Bradley
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether a starving artist with a personal safety net should receive government assistance.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on self-identification.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
The streaming hit, “The Boy’s Word,” about youth gangs in the last years of the Soviet Union, says grim things about the national mood.
By Alexander Nazaryan
New York is trying to treat an addictive substance just like any other product.
By Charles Fain Lehman
Mastic sap, also known as tears, enhance this light, creamy dessert.
By Ligaya Mishan
In a world of bad vibes, I just want to see an actor break.
By Rob Harvilla
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez flipped a rural red district to get to Congress. Now she wants to help her party do more of the same.
By Jason Zengerle
My dad always remembered his childhood journey through Europe. Now, with Alzheimer’s claiming his memories, we tried to recreate it.
By Francesca Mari
David Marchese talks to the comedy legend about navigating the minefield of fame, “Family Feud” and changing Hollywood forever.
By David Marchese
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Should this father be trying to communicate in the language of the places he visits if it’s embarrassing his son?
By John Hodgman
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on cycles of abuse and a heartbreaking family secret.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Long-running battles in the Himalayas may foretell a more dangerous conflict.
By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on a physician’s bedside manner — and the difference between justifiable concern and judgment.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
It’s been a challenge to follow the case. Here are its many twists and turns.
By Jonathan Mahler
After an accidental on-set shooting death — and two years of bitter legal combat — the movie star is about to have his day in court.
By Jonathan Mahler
The beloved chef’s admirers have given him a distinctly modern kind of digital afterlife — at the center of fondly parodic jokes.
By Becca Schuh
Vibrant, refreshing pink lemonade, a circus concession turned classic, is the taste of the season.
By Eric Kim
Producers selected three families to mimic late-19th-century homesteaders over five months. The resulting quarrels make the “Real Housewives” seem tame.
By Caity Weaver
Earth’s crust teems with subterranean life that we are only now beginning to understand.
By Ferris Jabr
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The governor of Michigan isn’t saying it should be her, but she’s not saying it shouldn’t be, either.
By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on marital deception.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
It might be America’s most-played sport. Now it’s quietly becoming a TV success story.
By Devin Gordon
Can your partner be compelled to eat dessert at your preferred time?
By John Hodgman
The Magazine’s Ethicist columnist on boundaries in friendship and other intimate relationships.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
A Times investigation reveals a crisis of the military’s own making.
By Janet Reitman
Austin Valley’s death exposed the Army’s most urgent challenge: a suicide crisis among soldiers in peacetime.
By Janet Reitman
Few people are better than Trevor Rainbolt at identifying obscure locations online — but there’s even more joy in watching him visit them IRL.
By Tomas Weber
Dried limes can take your weeknight meal to the next level.
By Yotam Ottolenghi
Collecting these small keepsakes can help keep the places you love alive.
By Britta Lokting
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As war killed all hope around her, Nevin Muhaisen fought to bring a new life into the world.
By Nicholas Casey
The greatest women’s tennis player of all time is trying to find her new normal in retirement.
By David Marchese
Alcohol is riskier than previously thought, but weighing the trade-offs of health risks can be deeply personal.
By Susan Dominus
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what happens when the implications of marital vows to love “in sickness and in health” become increasingly urgent.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
She first noticed the scent on her husband. Now her abilities are helping unlock new research in early disease detection.
By Scott Sayare
A growing body of evidence shows a link between these products and a number of health disorders in Black women.
By Linda Villarosa
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