The Trials of Aurora: A Colorado City’s Deep Divide Over Policing
After Elijah McClain died in 2019, the case seemed to be closed. The George Floyd protests — and the backlash to them — would change everything.
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CreditZariah Johnson; Andy Cross/The Denver Post, via Getty Images; David Zalubowski/Associated Press; Philip B. Poston/The Aurora Sentinel/Associated Press The Surprising Places Where Abortion Rights Are on the Ballot, and Winning
After Dobbs, the political ground seems to be shifting in some unpredictable ways.
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CreditBarbara J. Perenic/The Columbus Dispatch, via Associated Press What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us About Grief
Seeing works by Sophocles and Aeschylus in their native land imparts indelible lessons about pain and memory.
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CreditEnri Canaj/Magnum, for The New York Times Is Måneskin the Last Rock Band?
The Italian group has become a global sensation — by giving Gen Z a taste of a genre that might have already taken its final breath.
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Roz Chast Knows You’ll Always Regret Leaving the City for the Suburbs
“All of it: horrible,” says the beloved cartoonist. “Sorry.”
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The somewhat magical noodles have an innate generosity: add whatever you feel like at the moment.
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A video appeared to show Dodger Stadium in ruins. Was it a religious sign, climate disaster or something else entirely?
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Social justice, romance and gay pride are alive in a sound that would seduce the world.
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An evocation of motherhood as negative capability.
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