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Magazine

12.03.17 Issue

Highlights

  1. Feature

    How Far Will Sean Hannity Go?

    The Fox News host is willing to defend Trump at all costs — and is reaching more than 13 million people a day.

     By Matthew Shaer

    CreditChristopher Griffith for The New York Times
  2. Feature

    ‘They Will Have to Answer to Us’

    El Salvador’s gangs try to negotiate a way out of their bloody stalemate with the police.

     By Azam Ahmed

    Santiago, a senior member of a gang called the 18th Street Southerners, in El Salvador.
    CreditMoises Saman/Magnum, for The New York Times
  3. Feature

    Rachel Brosnahan’s Comic Timing

    Her star turn in ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ — the first major comedic role in her career — comes at a moment when it’s crucial to reclaim women’s place in stand-up history.

     By Rachel Syme

    CreditRyan Pfluger for The New York Times. Stylist: Sarah Slutsky.

  1. A Failure to Heal

    When a clinical trial falters, doctors find themselves sifting through the rubble.

     By Siddhartha Mukherjee

    CreditPhoto illustration by Cristiana Couceiro
    On Medicine

  2. Letter of Recommendation: Saturn

    The climate is cold as hell, but, oh, those rings.

     By Marta Bausells

    In astrology, Saturn is considered the master of the universe, signifying responsibility and rites of passage between the big phases of life.
    CreditIllustration by John Gall
    Letter of Recommendation

  3. Set Your Ice Cream Cake on Fire

    You may find pleasure in the elegant details of the pistachio cake, lemon semifreddo and Italian meringue in this baked alaska, or just in torching it.

     By Gabrielle Hamilton

    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    Eat

  4. Cornel West Doesn’t Want to Be a Neoliberal Darling

    The Harvard professor on his criticisms of Barack Obama, the importance of free speech and what Ta-Nehisi Coates gets wrong.

     Interview by Audie Cornish

    Cornel West
    CreditEva O’Leary for The New York Times
    Talk

  5. It Started as Sinus Headaches — But Things Got Deadly.

    A healthy, young girl gets sicker and sicker, while doctors race to figure out what’s ailing her.

     By Lisa Sanders, M.D.

    CreditIllustration by Andreas Samuelsson
    Diagnosis

  1. Should I Keep Working for a Raging Bigot?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on working for an employer with offensive views and dealing with a boyfriend’s restrictions on contacting an ex.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  2. New Sentences: From Paul Yoon’s ‘The Mountain’

    We communicate all sorts of emotions in the ways we move. But what words can we use to describe that?

     By Sam Anderson

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    New Sentences

  3. Poem: To Make Myself Happy in the Face of Error

    Selected by Terrance Hayes.

     By Eleni Sikelianos

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    Poem

  4. Judge John Hodgman on Public Displays of Juggling

    Street performers need love, too.

     By John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton
    Judge John Hodgman

  5. How to Climb a Coconut Tree

    Go barefoot. Loop a rope around the feet to keep legs from wrapping around the trunk.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

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