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What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn
American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know — and it’s shaping their ideas about pleasure, power and intimacy. Can they be taught to see it more critically?
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The Towers Came Down, and With Them the Promise of Public Housing
Former residents of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green were thrown into a system that increasingly leaves the poor to fend for themselves.
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The Rise of China and the Fall of the ‘Free Trade’ Myth
China’s economic success lays bare an uncomfortable historical truth: No one who preaches ‘free trade’ really practices it.
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When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office
A global network of live-work spaces is springing up to serve this new breed of millennial wanderer.
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The Cost of Being ‘Savage’ in a Supposedly Civilized World
Even in its new incarnation as a boast, it can’t shed its dehumanizing past.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Derek Brahney First WordsWhat I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death
Nothing reveals the curious disposability of consumer technology more than this feeble, aging device.
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CreditIllustration by Jon Han On TechnologyLetter of Recommendation: Dissecting a Human Body
To face the fear of death and loss, an author cut right into it, spending four weeks reducing a dead woman to her individual components.
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CreditIllustration by Mario Hugo Letter of RecommendationThe Flavor Enhancer You Don’t Need to Tell Anyone About
Seaweed is the secret to this remarkable fish chowder.
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Recreating a favorite store-bought cookie at home was a lesson in misplaced expectations.
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New Sentences: From ‘Her Body and Other Parties,’ by Carmen Maria Machado
Writing words can give you an almost eerie power over those who read them.
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what to do when your friends at school cheat on a test and more.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistDaniel Ellsberg Thinks We’re in Denial About Nuclear War
The author and former Defense and State Department official is surprised there hasn’t been a nuclear apocalypse yet.
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