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Did Venus Williams Ever Get Her Due?
How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis.
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The 8.25.19 Issue
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Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music
He says low-quality streaming is hurting our songs and our brains. Is he right?
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CreditJim Goldberg/Magnum, for The New York Times The Big Business of Scavenging in Postindustrial America
The U.S. produces more garbage than any other nation in the world per capita. Here’s how scrappers are turning that waste into a $32 billion business.
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James Ellroy on His Life in Crime, His Imaginary Dog and the Need to Provoke
“I’ve been writing a book for a couple of years and then they slip the chain off and I can run wild.”
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Why Do Politicians Blame ‘Cosmopolitans’ for Local Problems?
World leaders are quick to blame “citizens of the world” for economic inequality. What they’re actually pulling for is quite different.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban ScreenlandI Go on Family Vacations With My Rich Siblings. Must I Pay the Same?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the distinction between “equal” and “equitable” when it comes to divvying up the bill.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistHow Many Steps Should You Take a Day?
Fitness trackers have bolstered the case for even light exercise. The persistent mystery, though, is which movements matter most.
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CreditIllustration by Ori Toor Studies ShowLetter of Recommendation: Crickets
A nightly concert that transports you to a time before your kind walked the earth.
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CreditIllustration by Chloe Scheffe Letter of RecommendationWhy Was the Middle Aged Man’s Heart Beating so Dangerously Fast?
A pacemaker was supposed to solve his heart problem. But despite the device, he was experiencing strange and scary episodes.
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A Cookie Inspired by American Cornbread, Perfected in a French Bakery
Crisp to the bite, tender to the chew, corn sablés are shortbread at its finest.
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CreditJohnny Miller for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Colin King. EatInclude handles. Use cushioned seats. Make sure the upside person won’t be too earthbound.
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CreditIllustration by Radio TipJudge John Hodgman on Using Funny Voices While Reading
Does it make sense when your audience is too young to comprehend language at all?
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CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy Judge John HodgmanSkaja conjures the searing history of a jagged relationship, then mixes a tonic for it: images, elegies and invocations that let the speaker reinvent her human power.
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