Guantánamo’s darkest secret - The US military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise.
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Louisiana’s disappearing coast - The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.
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Stepping into the uncanny, unsettling world of Shen Yun
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The making of the Fox News White House
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A whale’s afterlife
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How to grant your child an inner life
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Did capital punishment create morality?
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The philosopher redefining equality
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Private Mossad for hire - Inside an effort to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race
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A grand plan to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Who owns the internet? (What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.)
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How the artificial intelligence program AlphaZero mastered its games
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How Mark Burnett resurrected Donald Trump as an icon of American success
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Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave
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Natalie Wynn: The stylish socialist who is trying to save YouTube from alt-right domination
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In the age of AI, is seeing still believing?
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
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The young queer writer who became Greenland’s unlikely literary star
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Why are Americans still uncomfortable with atheism?
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture - Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth
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Did Uber steal Google’s intellectual property?
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One year of #metoo: A modest proposal to help combat sexual harassment in the restaurant industry
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The strange triumph of “The Little Prince”
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The comforting fictions of dementia care
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Senate Democrats investigate a new allegation of sexual misconduct from Brett Kavanaugh’s college years
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Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
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Where will we go without Café Loup? The iconic bar-café closes its doors after forty-one years
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The reclusive hedge-fund tycoon behind the Trump presidency
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The death of a movie theatre
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The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages
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"As the North Wind Howled" by Yu Hua
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Gospels of giving for the new gilded age: Are today’s donor classes solving problems—or creating new ones?
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What the Oscars’ new “popular film” category says about the art—and business—of the movies
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A sociologist examines the “white fragility” that prevents white Americans from confronting racism
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How a notorious gangster was exposed by his own sister
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Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the denial underlying millennial financial resentment
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Albert Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
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Bo Burnham’s Age of Anxiety
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Hiroshima - a 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing and its aftermath
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Anthony Bourdain and the power of telling the truth
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Looking for life on a flat Earth: What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth
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The growing emptiness of the Star Wars universe
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The mind-expanding ideas of Andy Clark
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Missing files in the Treasury Department's FINCEN database motivated a law-enforcement official to leak Michael Cohen's financial records
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