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The 10.6.19 Issue

Highlights

  2. Feature

    Can the N.B.A. Find a Basketball Superstar in India?

    The league thinks India could be its next billion-dollar market. But first it needs to convince young Indians to fall in love with the game.

     By Reid Forgrave

    Ankit Hooda (second from left), 20, and Navdeep Grewal (far right), 19, members of the Ramjas College basketball team, training on a Saturday morning.
    CreditGeorge Georgiou for The New York Times
  3. Feature

    How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

    After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agency’s quiet embrace of big data.

     By McKenzie Funk

    An ICE officer in an Oregon parking lot before making an arrest in the predawn hours.
    CreditMatt Black/Magnum, for The New York Times

  1. What’s the Panic Over ‘Joker’ Really About?

    Critics seem to believe in the Joker’s evil powers even more than the most die-hard comic books fans do.

     By Dan Brooks

    CreditPhoto illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban
    Screenland

  2. Letter of Recommendation: Stock Trading

    I was afraid of money for most of my life. Then I opened a brokerage account.

     By Dinaw Mengestu

    Illustration by Robert Beatty
    Credit
    Letter of Recommendation

  3. A Mysterious Sleeping Disorder That Turns Life Into a Waking Dream

    The teenage boy was sleeping nearly all day. And when he was awake, he felt like he was cut off from reality. What was going on?

     By Lisa Sanders, M.D.

    CreditPhoto illustration by Ina Jang
    Diagnosis

  4. The Secret to Poundcake That Really Pops

    Add some zip to your recipes with the power of soda.

     By Sam Sifton

    7Up cake.
    CreditSarah Anne Ward for The New York Times. Food stylist: Michelle Gatton. Prop stylist: Paola Andrea.
    eat

  5. I Owed My Sibling Money. Must I Give It to the Scamming Widowed Spouse?

    The magazine’s Ethicist column on paying your debt to a sibling whose surviving spouse is a con artist, and more.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  1. Judge John Hodgman on Helping Yourself to Tea

    If it’s O.K. to do during a solo visit, is it O.K. to do at a dinner party?

     

    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

  2. Poem: Crossing

    Succinct phrases and sentences pack a deep power of knowledge and conviction. One thing — but also everything else.

     By Jericho Brown

    CreditIllustration by R.O. Blechman
    Poem

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