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The French dissertation that inspired the strategies that guide many modern investors. | Continue reading
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The author of “Housekeeping,” “Gilead,” and, now, “Jack” looks to history not just for the origins of America’s ailments but for their remedy, too. | Continue reading
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The former President is positioning himself and his audience as the only true Americans. | Continue reading
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Once you reimagine the leftover onion as something that could have been intentionally produced, you begin to see its possibilities. | Continue reading
Once you reimagine the leftover onion as something that could have been intentionally produced, you begin to see its possibilities. | Continue reading
The Hungarian artist, undercover as an oligarch, infiltrated Manhattan’s ultra-luxury high-rises with her fake husband, Zoltan, for a book of intentionally unartful photos. | Continue reading
In an attempt to work more effectively, we’ve accidentally deployed an inhumane way to collaborate. | Continue reading
Survivors detail the scope of China’s campaign of persecution against ethnic and religious minorities. | Continue reading
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Mackey discusses his book “Conscious Leadership,” the labor issues that arose at Whole Foods during the pandemic, his business philosophy, and running a company as part of Amazon. | Continue reading
While the virus has ravaged rich nations, reported death rates in poorer ones remain relatively low. What probing this epidemiological mystery can tell us about global health. | Continue reading
From 1957: Meeting Bobby Fischer—and his mother—at the Manhattan Chess Club. | Continue reading
In the face of climate change, some environmentalists are fighting not to close power plants but to save them. | Continue reading
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Charlie Brooker’s prophetic TV show explores the unintended consequences of technological innovation. | Continue reading
Stan Lee presided over a world of superheroes, but his collaborators and readers sustained his vision—and his characters outlasted it. | Continue reading
Millions of Americans lack access to high-speed Internet, a digital divide that the coronavirus lockdown has laid bare. | Continue reading
How China obtains American technological secrets. | Continue reading
Environmental destruction and violence threaten one of the world’s most extraordinary insect migrations. | Continue reading
The president of the San Francisco Board of Education discusses the controversies around reopening and renaming her district’s schools, including questions about how to view the legacies of complex historical figures. | Continue reading
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The painter captured the imperfections of the flesh so completely that they became a kind of perfection. | Continue reading
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The most glaring artistic error in “Soul” is its misprision—its elision, really—of what soul means for black culture. | Continue reading
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How a triple infanticide in Germany shed light on an elusive cold-water predator. | Continue reading
Molly Burhans wants the Catholic Church to put its assets—which include farms, forests, oil wells, and millions of acres of land—to better use. But, first, she has to map them. | Continue reading