Who Killed Tair Rada? Inside Israel’s True Crime Obsession
A TV documentary upended a murder case and captivated the nation. But its sensational theories might also be distorting justice.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Mike McQuade How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right
They made the intellectual case for Trump. Now they believe the country is in a cultural civil war.
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Neil Gaiman Knows What Happens When You Dream
“Every night,” says the genre-busting author of “The Sandman,” now on Netflix, “we close our eyes, fall asleep and go mad.”
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A Creamy, Spicy Dip Unlike Any Other
The Houston chef Dawn Burrell brings her biography to everything she cooks, like her creamed collard greens spiked with chile sauce.
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Can I Ditch My Roommate So I Can Live With My Friend?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what you owe the person who lives with you.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistHow ‘The Bear’ Captures the Panic of Modern Work
You don’t have to work in a kitchen to recognize the chaos and precarity the show depicts.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban ScreenlandI Collect Souvenir Spoons. I Can Explain.
Those airport gift-shop mementos are a link to the past — and to future trips my father and I might have shared.
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CreditCole Barash for The New York Times Letter of RecommendationHer Lungs Mysteriously Shut Down. How Could This Have Happened?
A high school athlete got desperately sick and needed life support. Years later, she helped discover the cause of her rare illness.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Ina Jang DiagnosisPoem: Final Poem for My Father Misnamed In My Mouth
The speaker grapples with the grief of losing a father who was missing while alive, but in death feels omnipresent.
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Judge John Hodgman on Paying for Precheck
A couple disagrees about waiting in airport security lines.
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CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy Judge John Hodgman
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