The president is harnessing the power of the government, from the Department of Homeland Security to the Postal Service, to disrupt the election. Read the magazine’s five-month investigation.
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Against all odds, it really was a refuge of competence, normalcy and transcendent play. But the outside world has a way of sneaking in.
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Over the next decade, the number of elderly homeless Americans is projected to triple — and that was before Covid-19 hit. In Phoenix, the crisis has already arrived.
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Even many Trump critics credit his Treasury secretary with rescuing the economy from the pandemic. Will the White House and Congress keep him from doing it again?
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Distance Learning, With Shades of Big Brother
A video on digital classroom etiquette makes it very clear: Your home is no longer your own, and your kids must pretend to learn in it.
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Poem: On Taking the Measure of Your Book
A poem that allows one to feel the fresh exhilaration of a beach, wind and air.
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Is It OK to Use Connections to Jump the Line for a Specialist?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on using your connections to get in to see a doctor months before anyone else can — and more.
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Judge John Hodgman on Annoying Birthday Requests
What should you get your boyfriend who incessantly asks for a tiger?
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She Craved Salt and Felt Nauseated for Months. What Was Wrong?
She was always tired, and her stomach had become strangely fragile. But her unaccountably tan skin clued doctors in to what ailed her.
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As Everything Else Changes, My Dover Paperbacks Hold Up
These books are still to me what they were when I was a kid: strange, magically potent talismans of safety, sanity and order.
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Store them in glass jars. Record the name and harvest date. Seeds can last many years.
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Buried in Salt, These Potatoes Are a Joy to Eat
Crack the crust tableside to reveal its mysterious contents; the delight will be palpable.
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A look at the effort to disenfranchise Americans using the false claim of voter fraud, taken to an extreme by President Trump.
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