Who Was Abdul Raziq?
Uncovering the brutal career of a crucial American ally — and the hidden truths of the war in Afghanistan.
By Matthieu Aikins and
Uncovering the brutal career of a crucial American ally — and the hidden truths of the war in Afghanistan.
By Matthieu Aikins and
The motion-capture acting in “The Planet of the Apes” movies tries to preserve the magic of the physical world amid all the effects in a big budget franchise.
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Topped with deeply browned onions, this snack is as simple or complex as you make it.
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The African National Congress has long rested on its legacy. But increasingly that isn’t enough to persuade voters to keep it in power.
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My Secret to Creative Rejuvenation? Conferences.
Vacations are cool, but sometimes you need more than an escape.
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This Scientist Has an Antidote to Our Climate Delusions
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on how to overcome the “soft” climate denial that keeps us buying junk.
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Judge John Hodgman on if We Should Trust Bookitty
A couple’s cat is facing some serious accusations.
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When Dynamite Turned Terrorism Into an Everyday Threat
In early 20th-century America, political bombings became a constant menace — but then helped give rise to law enforcement as we know it.
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The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel
After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.
By Ronen Bergman and
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on professional boundaries.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to disclose a devastating, destabilizing secret.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Radical forces in Israeli society have moved from the fringes to the mainstream and put Israel’s democracy in peril. Here are the takeaways from our investigation.
By Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti
TikTok has spawned a curious new way of understanding ordinary life: villain arcs, main character energy and seasons.
By Kim Hew-Low
Although her cough lingered, the patient wasn’t particularly concerned — until her X-ray turned ugly.
By Lisa Sanders, M.D.
For the past fifty years, Israeli officials have failed to restrain a violent settler movement, which has been allowed to operate with few consequences. Some of its most extreme members are now in government. According to officials in the Israeli security establishment who spoke with Ronen Bergman, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, the decades of failure to stop crimes by Jewish settlers and ultranationalists now threaten the future of Israeli democracy.
By Nikolay Nikolov and Ronen Bergman
A classified document obtained by The Times describes a meeting in March 2024, when Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox, the head of Israel’s Central Command, responsible for the West Bank, gave a withering account of the efforts by Bezalel Smotrich — an ultraright leader and the official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government with oversight over the West Bank — to undermine law enforcement in the occupied territory. Since Smotrich took office, Fox wrote, the effort to clamp down on illegal settlement construction has dwindled “to the point where it has disappeared.”
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to honor a dead writer’s wishes.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Strawberry cake, a Southern staple, is full of meaning.
By Lisa Donovan
After moving abroad, I found my English slowly eroding. It turns out our first languages aren’t as embedded as we think.
By Madeleine Schwartz
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