CULTURE
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“Rafa”: the Destruction of a Man, and the Making of a Legend
For tennis champion Rafael Nadal, pain has always felt like weakness leaving the body, and a new Netflix docuseries shows…
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The Absurd Virtual Spectacle of Trump’s D.C.
For nearly eight years, while living in Washington, D.C., I often played out a thought experiment in my mind: Which…
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“Firstborn Immigrant Daughter,” by Taiye Selasi
Dear Firstborn Immigrant Daughter, First. There are many ways to be an immigrant. Some immigrate to territories, others to tax…
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Taking Children from Their Parents Without a Court Order
They stayed in foster care for almost three years. The first set of foster parents found Jasmine too difficult to…
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Why Any Plausible Iran Deal Is a Humiliation for Trump
I think that the Iranians knew that this war was going to be something where they were going to have…
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A FEMA Insider Says Morale Has Never Been Lower at the Embattled Agency
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The New Yorker’s Ava Kofman Wins a 2026 National Magazine Award
The New Yorker’s Ava Kofman has received the 2026 National Magazine Award for Profile Writing, recognizing her portrait of the…
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The Generation That Will Always Be Too Young to Smoke
Like almost every smoker, I started when I was a child. Children aren’t supposed to smoke; it’s allegedly a part…
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Hungary Avoided Democratic Collapse. Can We?
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How Reading with My Dying Mother Revealed Her Life
I was eight, and through my bedroom wall I could hear my mother, Heidi, talking to herself as she prepared…
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