The Battle for the Mural — and the Future of Belarus
It started as an act of graffiti at a playground in Minsk. It turned into a remarkable campaign of defiance against an increasingly totalitarian regime.
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CreditYauhen Attsetski Contemplating Beauty in a Disabled Body
My looks don’t fit into classical ideals of order, proportion, symmetry. So what was I looking for in that gallery in Rome?
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CreditIllustration by Chad Wys France’s Far Right Turn
A rising nationalist faction has grown its coalition by appealing to Catholic identity and anti-immigrant sentiment — and reshaped the country’s race for president.
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Quinta Brunson Knows Why America Was Ready for ‘Abbott Elementary’
“Finally, network has a good understanding of the millennial way. Networks 10 years ago were like: “What the hell are you guys talking about? You sound crazy.’”
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My Brother-in-Law Is Awful to His Girlfriend. Should I Break Them Up?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to intervene when a family member is in an emotionally damaging relationship — and more.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistThey are best consumed as escapist fantasies about a mythic figure I myself could never embody: the femme fatale.
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CreditPhotograph by Sarah Palmer Letter of RecommendationThe Discovery of Shackleton’s Wreck Is as Disquieting as It Is Amazing
The world today is smaller and less mysterious than when Endurance sank. At the same time, we know too much about the past to be nostalgic.
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CreditPhoto illustration by E S Kibele Yarman ScreenlandI Got Lost in Tokyo Station and Found the Perfect Comfort Food
Kakuni (braised pork belly) is velvety and heartening, heightened by its directness — and wildly simple to cook.
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CreditChris Simpson for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas. EatFor Decades, He Had Strange Episodes of Utter Exhaustion
What was causing these spells, and why were they now more frequent?
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CreditPhoto illustration by Ina Jang Diagnosis
Poem: Instructions for Stopping
This poem gives us hope to imagine and construct a nonviolent future.
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CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman PoemIt’s a natural human tendency. Give yourself the time and space to look out into the world in a curious, aimless way.
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CreditIllustration by Radio TipJudge John Hodgman on Countertop Privilege
One man has enough space to put out appliances just as a joke.
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CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy Judge John Hodgman
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