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Magazine

The 7.02.17 Issue

Highlights

  1. Feature

    Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.)

    A new initiative to beam messages into space may be our best shot yet at learning whether we’re alone in the universe. There’s just one problem: What if we’re not?

     By Steven Johnson

    CreditIllustration by Paul Sahre
  2. Feature

    How Donald Trump Misunderstood the F.B.I.

    Since Watergate, the bureau has come to view itself as an essential, and essentially independent, check on the president.

     By Tim Weiner

    CreditPhoto illustration by Mike McQuade. Lewinsky, Comey, Gray, North: Getty Images. Letter: National Archives.
  3. Feature

    Can a Tech Start-Up Successfully Educate Children in the Developing World?

    Bridge International Academies — a chain of inexpensive private schools — has ambitious plans to revolutionize education for poor children. But can its for-profit model work in some of the most impoverished places on Earth?

     By Peg Tyre

    Students at a Bridge International Academies school in Liberia.
    CreditDiana Zeyneb Alhindawi for The New York Times

  1. Choosing a Baseball Team for My Baby Daughter

    Will rooting for the Mets or the Dodgers or the Red Sox help a new dad bind generations together?

     By Jay Caspian Kang

    CreditIllustration by Cristiana Couceiro
    On Sports

  2. Letter of Recommendation: The Pull-Up

    A quest to perfect an exercise of form and strength.

     By Sam Graham-Felsen

    A perfect union of form and strength.
    CreditIllustration by Jordy van den Nieuwendijk
    Letter of Recommendation

  3. David Sedaris Wants You to Read His Diary

    The humorist on picking up trash, publishing his innermost thoughts and making himself look bad.

     Interview by Ana Marie Cox

    David Sedaris
    CreditAdam DeTour for The New York Times
    Talk

  4. A Gazpacho Recipe to Follow — Then Discard

    Sometimes creating the best version of a classic dish requires you to taste your way to perfection.

     By Samin Nosrat

    Gazpacho.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    Eat

  5. Some Childhood Desserts Never Leave You

    A bakewell tart prompts three generations of memories.

     By Dorie Greenspan

    Stephanie Johnston’s bakewell tart.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    On Desserts

  1. Do I Report a Teacher’s Racist Facebook Post?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to tell a friend’s employer about his racist post, what to do about construction you suspect may be illegal and how to deal with the scofflaws at your gym.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  2. Memory

    Selected by Terrance Hayes.

     By Shara McCallum

    CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman
    Poem

  3. How to Hold a Venomous Snake

    Don’t pick it up with your hands. Don’t think too much.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

  4. New Sentences: From ‘Supercut,’ by Lorde

    An old pop-song scenario finds an oddly modern twist.

     By Nitsuh Abebe

    CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton
    New Sentences

  5. Judge John Hodgman on Whether ‘Mad Max’ Is Science Fiction or Post Apocalypse

    Two genres enter, one genre leaves.

     By John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton
    Judge John Hodgman

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