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Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least?
Many preschool teachers live on the edge of financial ruin. Would improving their training — and their pay — improve outcomes for their students?
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The Mystery of the Exiled Billionaire Whistle-Blower
From a penthouse on Central Park, Guo Wengui has exposed a phenomenal web of corruption in China’s ruling elite — if, that is, he’s telling the truth.
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Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories
A photographer captures a colorful world of craft and complexity.
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Who Decides What’s ‘Sexy’ — And Who Pays for It?
People lust after everything from actors to new consumer goods. A vast marketplace caters to some of those desires, and exploits others.
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Letter of Recommendation: Learned League
Life doesn’t present us with many opportunities to put to use the facts that we know for no other reason than that we know them.
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CreditIllustration by Tracy Ma Letter of RecommendationLearning to Fool Our Algorithmic Spies
Social media has put humanity in touch with a new sort of omniscience — the kind we can easily trick.
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CreditIllustration by Jon Han On TechnologyGabrielle Union Isn’t Done Talking About Sexual Assault
The actress on #MeToo, W.E.B. DuBois’ double consciousness and whether or not she’s aged.
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CreditJessica Chou for The New York Times TalkA Comfort Food Dish Rich in Friendship
Tofu and quinoa can be just as good for the soul as chicken soup.
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New Sentences: From ‘The World Goes On,’ by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
No matter where the Hungarian writer’s sentences begin, they’re liable to find their ways to apocalyptic conclusions.
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Credit New SentencesShould I Accept a Cash Reward for Doing the Right Thing?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether a good deed is its own reward and more.
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CreditIllustration by Michael Houtz TipJudge John Hodgman on Birthday Cakes, Erotic and Otherwise
What sort of baked goods do we owe our significant others?
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