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‘Flee at Once’: China’s Besieged Human Rights Lawyers
As the global spotlight on the nation’s domestic policies has dimmed, lawyers for dissidents increasingly face a terrible choice: acquiescence or imprisonment.
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The Majestic Marble Quarries of Northern Italy
Fueled by insatiable demand in the gulf states, the Italian marble trade is booming. A look at how the stone is wrenched from the earth.
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How to Make a Movie Out of Anything — Even a Mindless Phone Game
Hollywood is aggressively adapting material that doesn’t have a narrative or even any characters. But not all intellectual property is created equal.
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Is Being ‘Unapologetic’ the New Patriotic — or a Form of Resistance?
Some Americans’ allergy to apology meets up with exasperation over so-called political correctness. For others, there’s celebration in defiance.
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Should Superstar Athletes Make More Money and Run Their Leagues?
The Mayweather-McGregor bout and N.B.A. free agency call into question the structure of labor and compensation in American professional sports.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Cristiana Couceiro On SportsWhy Rashida Jones Changed Her Mind About Porn
The actor and producer on duck-lips selfies and the intersection of feminism and porn.
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A single app for language skills, self-improvement and digital escape.
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CreditIllustration by Michiel Schuurman Letter of RecommendationHow Grilling Fish Wrapped in Banana Leaves Teaches You to Trust Your Intuition
Flaky fish with a spicy coconut chutney is Parsi cooking at its best.
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on refusing to pay taxes as a form of political protest and reaching out to an unacknowledged half sibling.
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New Sentences: From ‘The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington’
The card-carrying Surrealist writer presents a man with an absurd — and instructive — problem.
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Credit New SentencesJudge John Hodgman on Keeping Locks of Hair
Should we be nailing our friends’ body parts to our walls?
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How to Stay Sane During a Solar Eclipse
The terrifying beauty of totality is best confronted in a crowd.
By Helen Macdonald
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