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The 6.20.21 Issue

Highlights

  1. Feature

    My Father Vanished When I Was 7. The Mystery Made Me Who I Am.

    My dad was a riddle to me, even more so after he disappeared. For a long time, who he was – and by extension who I was – seemed to be a puzzle I would never solve.

     By Nicholas Casey

    The author’s father in Syracuse, Sicily, in 1981.
    CreditCarlos Luján for The New York Times. Source photo from the author.

  2. Covid Proved the C.D.C. Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed?

    The pandemic revealed the glaring weaknesses of the world’s premier public health agency — and just how much work it would take to reform it.

     By Jeneen Interlandi and Brian Rea

    CreditIllustration by Brian Rea

  1. Don’t Play With Your Kids. Seriously.

    I have three kids under 10 who don’t expect — or even want — to play with me. It took some practice, but over time, we’ve all learned we’re better off doing our own thing.

     By Edan Lepucki

    CreditDevin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times
    Letter of Recommendation

  2. A Delightful Glimpse Into Golf’s Secret World of Bitter Feuds

    A moment ripe with loathing, shared between two large golfers, interrupts the game’s smooth surface.

     By Elizabeth Nelson

    CreditPhoto illustration by Ricardo Santos. Screen grabs from YouTube.
    Screenland

  3. He Kept Seeing Sparkly Dots on the Edge of His Vision. What Was It?

    A worrying smudge on a photo of his retina became an important clue.

     By Lisa Sanders, M.D.

    CreditPhoto illustration by Ina Jang
    Diagnosis

  4. How Should I Deal With an Unvaccinated Student?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the obligations faced by those who choose not to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditTomi Um
    The Ethicist

  5. Poem: ‘There is no news from Auschwitz’

    This poem by Sonia Sanchez will astonish and alarm you.

     By Sonia Sanchez and Reginald Dwayne Betts

    CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman
    Poem

  1. How to Think Like a Utopian

    Strive to be both idealistic enough to envision a new world and pragmatic enough to steadily build it.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

  2. Judge John Hodgman on Appropriate Labels for Younger Boomers

    Must a teenager acknowledge his father, born in 1963, as a member of “Generation Jones”?

     By John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

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