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The Return of Lorde
Four years after her debut album, the pop prodigy is back with a testimonial to heartbreak and solitude.
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The 4.16.17 Issue
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I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong.
A historian of conservatism looks back at how he and his peers failed to anticipate the rise of the president.
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Inside Turkey’s Purge
As the ruling party expands the ranks of its enemies, life in a fragile democracy becomes stranger and stranger.
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Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck
From “Idiocracy” to “Silicon Valley,” the writer and director has established himself as America’s foremost chronicler of its own self-destructive tendencies.
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New Technology Is Built on a ‘Stack.’ Is That the Best Way to Understand Everything Else, Too?
People from nutrition geeks to philosophers are using a metaphor from software to describe the world.
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CreditIllustration by Javier Jaén First WordsIn a period of global uncertainty, some Japanese photographers offer new ways of seeing.
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CreditShimpei Takeda On PhotographyNew Sentences: From ‘Ballplayer,’ by Chipper Jones
So much of what is worthwhile requires us to choose discomfort.
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CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton New SentencesDan Rather Thinks We Need Patriotism, Not Nationalism
The former news anchor on new media, quality journalism and “Friday Night Lights.”
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CreditAndrew T. Warman for The New York Times TalkLetter of Recommendation: Fake Flowers
Most complaints against imitations depend on a hard nature-versus-art distinction, one that never really holds up.
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A Spring Dish to Bring You Back to Life
When a long winter leaves you feeling depressed and deprived, let this bright and warm avgolemono rice revive you.
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CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times EatIs It O.K. to Marry an Amnesiac?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on cognitive disability and the nature of consent, and what an employee owes to an employer.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistJudge John Hodgman on Feeding Turkeys Cheetos
Where do we draw the line on judging people — or creatures — by the virtue of their diets?
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