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11.05.17 Issue

Highlights

  1. Feature

    A Post-Obama Democratic Party in Search of Itself

    The 44th president left office as one of the most popular in American history. He also left behind a party struggling to find an identity — and to reconnect with voters in time for the 2018 elections.

     By

    CreditIllustration by Matt Dorfman. Barack Obama: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
  2. Feature

    Greta Gerwig’s Radical Confidence

    In her directorial debut, the writer and actress has created a character rarely seen onscreen: a young girl who loves herself.

     By

    CreditErik Madigan Heck for The New York Times. Stylist: Kathryn Typaldos.
  1. When ‘Conservatives’ Turned Into Radicals

    The movement’s elites may talk about tradition and order, but the base of voters wants something else: sudden, uncompromising change.

     By

    CreditPhoto illustration by Derek Brahney
    First Words
  2. Not the Bots We Were Looking For

    Technologists once told us that social bots would change our lives forever. They were right — but not in the way they expected.

     By

    CreditIllustration by Jon Han
    On Technology
  3. Why Was Their Brother’s Memory and Behavior So Strange?

    He swore he was no longer drinking. But something was making him act oddly.

     By

    CreditIllustration by Andreas Samuelsson
    Diagnosis
  4. Can I Turn In a Bad Fraternity at My Son’s College?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on when to betray a confidence and when to intervene in a relative’s private affairs.

     By

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist
  5. Letter of Recommendation: Cabbages and Kings

    A game that’s actually fun to play with your children.

     By

    The perfect family card game: simpler than adult staples but more complex than grueling little-kid standards.
    CreditHannah Whitaker for The New York Times
    Letter of Recommendation
  1. The Pleasures of Making Your Own Pork Patty

    A once-reluctant omnivore on the delights of homemade sausage.

     By

    Maple breakfast sausage.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Amy Wilson.
    Eat
  2. Beatrice Fihn Thinks We Can Abolish Nuclear Arms

    The Swiss activist on what it’s like to win the Nobel Peace Prize and how to change people’s minds about nuclear weapons.

     Interview by

    Beatrice Fihn
    CreditSally Montana for The New York Times
    Talk
  3. New Sentences: From Destroyer’s ‘Ivory Coast’

    At the end of this song, a comforting cliché is given a bleak, disorienting twist.

     By

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    New Sentences
  4. Poem: WEEP LIKE A WOMAN FOR WHAT YOU COULD NOT HOLD AS A MAN

    Selected by Terrance Hayes.

     By

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    Poem
  5. Judge John Hodgman on Commuting by Rollerblade

    Does it reflect negatively on friends and colleagues?

     By

    CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton
    Judge John Hodgman

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