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The 3.12.23 Issue

Highlights

  2. Why Poverty Persists in America

    A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem.

     By Matthew Desmond

    A mother and son living in a Walmart parking lot in North Dakota in 2012.
    CreditEugene Richards

  1. He Was Sweating Uncontrollably. Was It Male Menopause?

    His vital signs were normal. He didn’t have a fever. A slew of tests couldn’t find the cause. Then a locker-room conversation between doctors led to the diagnosis.

     By Lisa Sanders, M.D.

    CreditPhoto illustration by Ina Jang
    Diagnosis

  2. Our Relatives Keep Bringing Their Dog Over. How Can We Stop Them?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to tell loved ones that you don’t love their pet.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  3. Can We Fire Our Employee? His Father Just Died.

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what employers owe their workers.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  4. Los Angeles Is a Fantastic Walking City. No, Really.

    A stroll down Rosecrans Avenue is not a pleasure. But it does offer a 27-mile canvas of the city’s vastness and its diverse communities coexisting.

     By Rosecrans Baldwin

    CreditAdali Schell for The New York Times
    Letter of Recommendation

  5. When Bystanders Step Between the Police and Black Men

    You’ve seen the videos of deadly encounters. What effect can a witness have?

     By Brooke Jarvis

    CreditPhoto illustration by Mark Harris
    Screenland

  1. The Comforting, Cheesy Charm of Chicken Doria

    This Japanese answer to a gratin conjures bliss with whatever is already on hand.

     By Bryan Washington

    CreditChris Simpson for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas.
    Eat

  2. Poem: form

    The unemployment form, with its insults and banalities, is an object of unhappy necessity. The poetic form, however, resists the other’s requirements.

     By Ryan Eckes

    CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman
    Poem

  3. Judge John Hodgman on Introducing Your Children to Swearing

    A dispute about a joke-a-day calendar leads to a surprise ruling on childhood exposure to profanity.

     By John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

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