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Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
When a state divests from public education
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Environmentalist momentum in the West
A life without food
The innovations of A.R. Ammons
The village where girls turn into boys
An ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South Sudan
The coming crackdown
Lessons from the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913
The disgraced broadcaster’s distortions of history
The Democrats struggle to rise from the ashes
How Cubans deliver culture without internet
Trump’s tussle with the bureaucratic state
A tuberculosis crisis in the Black Belt
Can officials be held liable for the suffering they inflict?
The mathematics of predicting war
What’s forgotten in China’s time-lapse urbanism
Is Donald Trump a fascist or a plutocrat?
The human network behind the biggest leak of all
Inside the competitive Indian-American spelling community
The scandal of mental health in West Africa
Bill de Blasio gambles on doing the right thing
The ragged glory of female activism
Tokyo’s painful exclusion of immigrants
How the refugee crisis is changing a nation’s identity
When a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, Tokyo artist Kazuto Tatsuta (a pen name taken from the Tatsuta train station in Fukushima) wanted to help…
Mapping the spread of antigay ideology
The death penalty as a conservative conundrum
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