Notes on a year without strangers

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How Amazon turned a generation against labor

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Art as civic repair

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What the pandemic has done to the arts

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Tragedies in the margins of history

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Finding meaning in the climate fight

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Educating the TikTok generation

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What exactly does the Endangered Species Act protect?

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Caliphate and the perils of reporting online

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On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son

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On suicide and Moby-Dick

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How America enables corruption in Honduras

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The death penalty under Trump and the execution of Dustin Higgs

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Why America’s national parks need new management

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The psychological risks of meditation

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What happens when we talk to animals?

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Are we living through another antebellum era?

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The East, the West, and the meaning of home

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Richard Rothman has gone looking for that obvious yet elusive thing: the American character. Like generations of photographers before him, Rothman is interested in how that character has been shaped…

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For years, Michael Ransford had known he would need surgery for his umbilical hernia. “People said if it ruptured, it could kill me,” the sixty-year-old farmer told me. The pain…

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Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema

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Will America recover under Biden?

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Madagascar reckons with an invasive crayfish

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Reality after trump Tabloids after trump Movies after trump Relationships after trump Manners after trump Imagination after trump Gold after trump Conversation after trump Punctuation after trump Apologies after trump…

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Among the contemplatives

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Tell me how the story ends

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Inside Ukraine’s extremist militias

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Wall Street’s answer to the student-debt crisis

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