Elon Musk’s Appetite for Destruction
A wave of lawsuits argue that Tesla’s self-driving software is dangerously overhyped. What can its blind spots teach us about the company’s erratic C.E.O.?
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CreditPhoto illustration by Justin Metz Cockfighting Is Illegal in the U.S. Why Does It Breed so Many Fighting Birds?
The long tradition of American game-fowl breeding has produced some of the world’s most coveted roosters.
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In Kota, students from across the country pay steep fees to be tutored for elite-college admissions exams — which most of them will fail.
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Is It OK to Let My Relatives Think Their Dead Sister Is Still Alive?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to come clean about a well-intended lie.
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This Soup Is Yotam Ottolenghi’s Comfort Food
In this soup, lamb meatballs and semolina dumplings come with a zest of history.
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Fans are used to seeing gruesome injuries. But there was no media playbook for what happened to Hamlin.
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