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5.13.18 Issue

Highlights

  1. Feature

    Children of the Opioid Epidemic

    In the midst of a national opioid crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

     By Jennifer Egan

    Elizabeth and her baby at home in Rhode Island.
    CreditAlec Soth/Magnum, for The New York Times
  2. Feature

    The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio

    For decades, United States policy toward Russia has been steered less by presidents than by a small group of experts — the ‘Russia hands.’ Can they help explain why the relationship has gone off the rails?

     By Keith Gessen

    CreditPhoto illustration by John Gall. Source photos from Getty Images.

  1. How Can I Make My Colleague Stop Stealing?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on a fellow professor who takes a free hand with institutional funds and what to do with old Playboy magazines.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  2. What Do We Mean When We Call Art ‘Necessary’?

    It’s supposed to be a compliment, but it saddles the work — and its audience — with the weight of moral imperative.

     By Lauren Oyler

    CreditPhoto illustration by Derek Brahney. Source photograph of sandwich, house, palette: Getty Images.
    First Words

  3. Caramelized-Scallion Sauce Will Never Go Viral (But It Should)

    Caramelized-scallion sauce isn’t pretty, but it tastes fantastic on everything it touches.

     By Francis Lam

    Caramelized-scallion noodles.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    Eat

  4. The Double-Layer Chocolate Cake I Make for My Son’s Birthday

    A frosted chocolate birthday confection that never gets old.

     By Dorie Greenspan

    Chocolate-chocolate birthday cake.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times.
    On Dessert

  5. Letter of Recommendation: Tiny Museums

    There ought to be 7.6 billion of them all over the world.

     By Samanth Subramanian

    Dioramas depicting life in Soviet communal housing at the Attic in Zadonsk, Russia.
    CreditMax Sher for The New York Times
    Letter of Recommendation

  1. John Mulaney Thinks Comics Should Take the Gloves Off

    The comedian on the challenges — or not — of joke-writing in our current political climate.

     By Molly Lambert

    John Mulaney.
    CreditCeleste Sloman for The New York Times
    Talk

  2. New Sentences: From Meredith Goldstein’s ‘Can’t Help Myself’

    The word “so” offers a lot of opportunities for unexpected comedy.

     By Sam Anderson

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    New Sentences

  3. Behind the Cover: Children of the Opioid Epidemic

    A new video series goes inside the process for creating the covers of The New York Times Magazine. This week, a look at mothers who struggle to get off drugs for their babies.

     

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    Issue 5.13.18

  4. How to Curtsy

    Be discreet and brief. No need to hold your skirts.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

  5. Judge John Hodgman on Who Gets to Wear Tweed

    Is it only for those with useless degrees?

     By Judge John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton
    Judge John Hodgman

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