The Problem With Putting a Price on the End of the World
Economists have workable policy ideas for addressing climate change. But what if they’re politically impossible?
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The 4.14.19 Issue
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CreditPhoto illustration by Pablo Delcan Climate Chaos Is Coming — and the Pinkertons Are Ready
As they see it, global warming stands to make corporate security as high-stakes in the 21st century as it was in the 19th.
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CreditDina Litovsky/Redux, for The New York Times What Survival Looks Like After the Oceans Rise
At the site of a Bangladeshi town lost to devastating storms, locals make do by scavenging what remains.
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CreditAndrea Frazzetta/Institute, for The New York Times The Next Reckoning: Capitalism and Climate Change
Fixing the planet is going to be expensive. Can we stomach the bill for human survival?
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How Big Business Is Hedging Against the Apocalypse
Investors are finally paying attention to climate change — though not in the way you might hope.
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CreditIllustration by Dadu Shin Climate Change Could Destroy His Home in Peru. So He Sued an Energy Company in Germany.
Local communities are taking the world’s largest polluters to court. And they’re using the legal strategy that got tobacco companies to pay up.
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CreditFelipe Fittipaldi for The New York Times Animal Videos Are How We Escape the Internet (While on the Internet)
The online world is an interactive museum of humiliation, bad faith and gross memes. This is why we need parrots trolling cats.
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CreditScreen grab from the Instagram account of @oscar.george.poppy ScreenlandThe Secret to Fried Cauliflower That Is Savory Yet Light
A professional chef learns the key to perfect vegetable batter — from her teenager.
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CreditBobby Doherty for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Noemi Bonazzi. EatLetter of Recommendation: Spuds MacKenzie
The Bud Light mascot embodied the entitled recklessness of being young, white and rich. Admire him without guilt — you can’t cancel a dog.
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CreditIllustration by Jason Polan Letter of Recommendation
How Can I Teach My Great-Granddaughter to Be Charitable?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on helping a child develop an interest in philanthropy, telling a co-worker’s spouse about his office romance and more.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistMake a list of things you don’t like about yourself. Crack jokes about the less-painful stuff first. Be self-deprecating, not self-disparaging.
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CreditIllustration by Radio TipThe young man delivering pizzas in his run-down neighborhood has learned to relish the quiet kindnesses of community.
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Credit PoemBehind the Cover: The Climate Issue
Inside the process for creating the covers of The New York Times Magazine.
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