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The 5.28.17 Issue

Highlights

  1. Feature

    Aleppo After the Fall

    As the Syrian civil war turns in favor of the regime, a nation adjusts to a new reality — and a complicated new picture of the conflict emerges.

     By

    Al-Hatab Square in Aleppo’s Old City.
    CreditSebastián Liste/Noor Images, for The New York Times
  2. Feature

    Jared Kushner’s Other Real Estate Empire in Baltimore

    Baltimore-area renters complain about a property owner they say is neglectful and litigious. Few know their landlord is the president’s son-in-law.

     By

    Baltimore-area properties owned by Kushner Companies.
    CreditPhilip Montgomery for The New York Times
  3. Feature

    Is It Possible to Resist Deportation in Trump’s America?

    Living under draconian state laws, Arizona activists honed an effective strategy for keeping undocumented immigrants in the country. Can the same tools still work today?

     By

    Erika Andiola, right, an immigrants rights activist, is fighting the deportation of her mother, Maria Guadalupe Arreola.
    CreditDamon Casarez for The New York Times
  1. Can Anyone Be Truly ‘Independent’ In Today’s Polarized Politics?

    Americans may be losing faith in the idea that any figure or institution can rise entirely above the partisan fray.

     By

    CreditIllustration by Derek Brahney
    First Words
  2. Janet Mock Struggles With Being Called a ‘Trans Advocate’

    The author on giving young people life advice and what she learned from sex work.

     Interview by

    Janet Mock
    CreditAndrew T. Warman for The New York Times
    Talk
  3. A Taste of Home in One Pot

    The beans and pork of northern Mexico, by way of San Francisco.

     By

    Gonzalo Guzmán’s pork-braised butter beans with eggs.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    Eat
  4. A More Perfect Cream Puff

    Pâte à choux has been around for hundreds of years, but every pastry chef makes it new. Home cooks can, too.

     By

    Craquelin-topped cream puffs.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    On Desserts
  5. Where Did the Great Hollywood Baseball Movie Go?

    In an era of analysts and HD broadcasts, audiences don’t see the players as larger-than-life characters anymore.

     By

    CreditPhoto illustration by Cristiana Couceiro
    On Sports
  1. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Terrace House’

    A reality show so punishingly mundane that it becomes beautiful.

     By

    A reality show so punishingly mundane it becomes beautiful.
    CreditIllustration by Carolyn Figel
    Letter of Recommendation
  2. Should You Expose a Charity That Exploits Its Employees?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to balance the good a nonprofit does against how it treats those who work for it and whether you should give away your cigarettes when you quit.

     By

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist
  3. Judge John Hodgman on the Husband Who’s Too Cool for Social Media

    Creeping on your wife’s account proves you are just as lame as the rest of us.

     By

    Creditllustration by Kyle Hilton
    Judge John Hodgman
  4. New Sentences: From ‘Augustown,’ by Kei Miller

    A bit of Jamaican patois describes the curious ways news can travel.

     By

    CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton
    New Sentences
  5. Whirl

    Selected by Matthew Zapruder.

     Selected by

    CreditIllustration by R.O. Blechman
    Poem

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