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The Money Behind Trump’s Money
The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort.
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How to Write Fiction When the Planet Is Falling Apart
Jenny Offill is the master of novels told in sly, burnished fragments. In her latest, ‘Weather,’ she uses this small form to address the climate collapse.
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Dee Rees and the Art of Surviving as a Black Female Director
From her Oscar-nominated “Mudbound” to her new foray into blockbuster cinema, she is trying to create a new kind of Hollywood empire.
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I’ve Inherited a Fatal Disease. Can I Tell My Sister’s Children About Their Risk?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on overruling your sibling to tell her children about their genetic predisposition to a terminal illness and more.
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The Sensuous Pleasures of Handmade Marshmallows
They are sturdy enough to stack, sandwich in s’mores or melt in hot chocolate, but tender, with skin as soft as a petal.
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The comedian Conner O’Malley indicts the greed that built Manhattan’s $25 billion corporate fantasia.
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CreditPhoto Illustration by Joan Wong ScreenlandHenry Louis Gates Jr. on What Really Happened at Obama’s ‘Beer Summit’
Why is Biden at the table? He was there to be the second white guy.
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CreditMamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times TalkHow to Dress for a Job Interview
Choose an outfit for a version of you that already has the job. Try it on several days in advance. Take “the sit-down test.”
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A moment on a sidewalk becomes a koan, a fragment bearing a mysterious pronoun.
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Credit PoemJudge John Hodgman on Inspecting Your Wife’s Garbage
Should a man be digging through his wife’s refuse?
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