Ukraine’s 15,000-Mile Lifeline
How the country’s vast rail system has helped it withstand an invasion.
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How the country’s vast rail system has helped it withstand an invasion.
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Army Rangers killed her parents. A Marine is raising her in America. But her Afghan family says she was taken under false pretenses.
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Will Arbery’s work challenges us to slow down, even when dealing with the pressures of political and social discord.
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“I’m absolutely fascinated by this question, because I think I have an answer, and I don’t think it has ever been well answered.”
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Is It OK That My Wife Posts Photos of Her Breastfeeding Our Son?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on weighing the risks of sharing an intimate family moment online.
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This Is What Your Thanksgiving Meal Is Missing
Yotam Ottolenghi thinks American holiday meals are bland. These flavor-packed brussels sprouts will liven yours up.
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The End of ‘Atlanta’ Changes Everything
Donald Glover’s masterpiece was a different kind of prestige TV. It never explained itself, and was all the better for it.
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The Desert Changed My Life. It Can Change Yours, Too.
In the Mojave, humans are reminded of our smallness, our naïveté, our transience.
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It Was Her Third Visit to the E.R. What Was Causing Her Abdominal Pain?
Scans and a surgery didn’t show any abnormalities. Her neurologist had a surprising theory.
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Poem: Self-Portrait as Collected Bones [Rejoice, Rejoice]
Michael Wasson’s poem uses the self-portrait to investigate identity within the legacy of colonialism and erasure of the Indigenous body.
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