The Teachers’ Strike and the Democratic Revival in Oklahoma

A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies. | Continue reading


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Weeding the Worst Library Books (2016)

On the blog Awful Library Books, two librarians highlight texts that seem self-evidently ridiculous. | Continue reading


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Arabia

How strange rocks—and an obscure language—are changing a decades-old academic consensus. | Continue reading


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A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone

How strange rocks—and an obscure language—are changing a decades-old academic consensus. | Continue reading


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How the Internet gets inside us

The debate over what omnipresent information is doing to our minds. | Continue reading


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Philip Roth, the Seminal American Novelist, Has Died at Eighty-Five

Remembering the writer, and his legacy, in our pages. | Continue reading


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Philip Roth in The New Yorker

Remembering the writer, and his legacy, in our pages. | Continue reading


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Automated Health Care Offers Freedom from Shame, but Is It What Patients Need?

We often respond more openly to computers and robots than we do to our fellow-humans. Yet some ethicists worry that relying too much on A.I. could be dangerous. | Continue reading


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Deep in the Honduran Rain Forest, an Ecological SWAT Team Explores a Lost World

Centuries ago, the Mosquitia region was home to a mysterious civilization. Since then, it has been overrun by jaguars, snakes, and other jungle creatures. | Continue reading


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How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men

Advertising has always been about the search for perfect targeting data, paving the way for the annihilating power of Google and Facebook. | Continue reading


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The Lesson of Eric Greitens, and the Navy SEALs Who Tried to Warn Us

The charges facing the embattled governor of Missouri have stunned voters, but in the tight-knit Naval Special Warfare community, Greitens has been a divisive figure for years. | Continue reading


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Trying, and Mostly Failing, to Study the Life of New York City’s Rats

Trying, and mostly failing, to study the life of New York City rodents. | Continue reading


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Thresholds of Violence: How school shootings catch on

An increasingly ritualized form of violence is attracting unexpected perpetrators. | Continue reading


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Missing Files Motivated the Leak of Michael Cohen's Financial Records

A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database. | Continue reading


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A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database. | Continue reading


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How India’s Welfare Revolution Is Starving Citizens

For the past two years, food campaigners have watched in alarm as the Aadhaar I.D. system has taken hold in India’s bureaucracy. | Continue reading


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Why Nouns Slow Us Down, and Why Linguistics Might Be in a Bubble

A new study found that nouns actually take longer to spit out than verbs do, presumably because they require more thought to produce. | Continue reading


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Loose Lips at Hewlett-Packard (2007)

How the company’s obsession with tracing leaks became worse than the leaks themselves. | Continue reading


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The Case of a Gay Girl in Damascus

Why Tom MacMaster, a white man and publishing failure from Georgia, pretended to be an Arab-American lesbian. | Continue reading


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How Fortnite Captured Teens’ Hearts and Minds

The craze for the third-person shooter game has elements of Beatlemania, the opioid crisis, and eating Tide Pods. | Continue reading


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Life Under Alternative Facts

The Soviet Union bombarded its citizens with such facts in the seventies and eighties. No one was fooled. | Continue reading


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Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse

In her latest novel, “The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047,” the anti-authoritarian author brings the country to the brink of economic apocalypse. | Continue reading


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A Vintner’s Quest to Create a Truly American Wine

Randall Grahm’s iconoclastic obsession will involve breeding new varietals from scratch and growing them where grapes have never been grown before. | Continue reading


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No Death, No Taxes the Libertarian Futurism of a Silicon Valley Billionaire

The information age has made Peter Thiel rich, but it has also disappointed him. | Continue reading


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Shudu Gram, the virtual black supermodel created by a white man

The model is the creation of a white fashion photographer who, inspired by the increasing number of black women working in his industry, created his own out of C.G.I. | Continue reading


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At Last, Scientific Proof That Eurovision Makes People Happier

“Even an abysmal performance would be better than complete absence from the contest,” a group of British researchers concluded. | Continue reading


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Free Will, Video Games, and the Profoundest Quantum Mystery

How an international team of experimental physicists used the unpredictability of the human brain to probe the nature of reality. | Continue reading


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The Michael Cohen Revelations Are a Crash Course in Shady Corporate Entities

Columbus Nova has access to billions of dollars, with no need for new capital. So why did the firm hire Michael Cohen as a business consultant for a half million dollars? | Continue reading


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How We Solved Fake News the First Time

The horror and despair of the current informational carnage have a precedent in the pamphlet culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England. | Continue reading


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Uninvent this

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Fleeing the Lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano

“You don’t think about it until it comes,” one evacuee said. “It just goes to show you nothing is permanent in this world.” | Continue reading


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Don’t Eat Before Reading This (1999)

A New York chef spills some trade secrets. | Continue reading


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How Ryan Murphy Became the Most Powerful Man in TV

More than any other showrunner, he has upended the pieties of modern television. | Continue reading


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Four Women Accuse New York’s AG, Eric Schneiderman, of Physical Abuse

Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct. Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own. | Continue reading


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Four Women Accuse New York's Attorney General of Physical Abuse

Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct. Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own. | Continue reading


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How Frightened Should We Be of A.I.?

Thinking about artificial intelligence can help clarify what makes us human—for better and for worse. | Continue reading


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The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul

Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image. | Continue reading


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Open Bar for Beta Testers

Drunk User Testing is based on the principle that an app should be simple enough that a person can use it buzzed. | Continue reading


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Is Capitalism a Threat to Democracy?

The idea that authoritarianism attracts workers harmed by the free market, which emerged when the Nazis were in power, has been making a comeback. | Continue reading


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Larry Harvey, the Founder of Burning Man, Taught America to Experiment

For many people, including me, the contrivance of Burning Man gave us an immersive model of community and experimentation. | Continue reading


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Russia’s House of Shadows

My apartment building was made to house the first generation of Soviet élite. Instead, it was where the revolution went to die. | Continue reading


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Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials

Using false identities, a private intelligence firm tried to gather damaging information about the architects of the Iran nuclear deal. | Continue reading


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Elegy for the World’s Oldest Spider

She spent most of her forty-three years alone in a silk-lined burrow, venturing out only to mate and eat termites, but she became a matriarch of her colony and an inspiration to scientists. | Continue reading


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The United States of Japan

Hit Japanese products, from the Walkman to Pokémon, have long captivated us, but Japan's most influential export might be its own lived experience. | Continue reading


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The Digital Dirt (2016)

Harvey Levin runs a gossip site that operates like an intelligence agency. How did it become so powerful? | Continue reading


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Coming to Terms with a Life Without Water

For some residents of Cape Town, the memory of the drought is already fading. But, in an increasingly parched world, will the anxiety ever really end? | Continue reading


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Your Coffee Addiction, by Decade

By your early forties, the best part about going to bed is imagining the coffee you’re going to drink in the morning. | Continue reading


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A Brilliant 1895 Novel on the Emptiness of Literary Fame

In “Late Fame,” a newly translated satire by Arthur Schnitzler, an aging Viennese civil servant is crowned a master poet, virtually out of nowhere. | Continue reading


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