The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s New Frontier
A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation to reject ordinary childhood immunizations — with potentially lethal consequences.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Jamie Chung for The New York Times The Rise and Fall of America’s Environmentalist Underground
This year, one of the last fugitives of the Earth Liberation Front pleaded guilty to arson — at a moment when climate activists are again flirting with radical ideas.
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CreditMark Mobley/Vail Fire and Emergency Services How Ukraine’s Greatest Novelist Is Fighting for His Country
Andrey Kurkov has spent his life writing about realities so absurd they defy satire. It was perfect preparation for this moment.
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CreditAntoine d’Agata/Magnum, for The New York Times Why Is ‘Bob’s Burgers’ So Freakishly Lovable? This Guy.
Loren Bouchard’s accidental career as a comedy mogul has now brought his TV family to the big screen.
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America Almost Took a Different Path Toward Abortion Rights
Roe v. Wade was never expected to be the case that made history.
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CreditGraphic House/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Alex Cooper Is Coming for Joe Rogan’s Spot
“I want to have the number one show in the world,” says the host of the blockbuster “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “I want to break every record possible.”
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CreditMamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times TalkI Witnessed a Murder. Is It Wrong to Write About It?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether we have the right to tell the story of someone else’s tragedy.
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CreditIIlustration by Tomi Um The EthicistBiscotti So Good They Made Me Cry
These chocolate biscotti, spiked with chiles and studded with cashews, possess the power to persuade even the staunchest doubters.
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CreditChris Simpson for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas. EatHow I Learned to Live With Ghosts
The Korean tradition of jesa, or memorializing ancestors, helped me understand that our loved ones continue to shape our lives long after they have departed.
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CreditIllustration by Soomyeong Kim Letter of Recommendation
Prestige shows like “Winning Time” love to dramatize the real people at the heart of recent-ish events. It doesn’t always go well.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Mark Harris ScreenlandMonths After a Stroke, the Man Was Wasting Away. What Was Wrong?
Swallowing food was strangely difficult, and he was getting weaker by the day.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Ina Jang Diagnosis
CreditIllustration by Radio TipPoem: [One afternoon you fixed me]
This poem by Mark Bibbins reminds us that so much about grief is in the fragments of memory and detail that a loved one leaves behind.
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CreditIllustration by R.O. Blechman PoemJudge John Hodgman on Driving Stick
Should you learn to drive manually? On a tight deadline to save money on a rental car?
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