Constance Wu’s Hollywood destiny - Coming late to celebrity, the star has felt the burden of representing all Asian-Americans
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How the MIT Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
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In "The Testaments", Margaret Atwood expands the world of "The Handmaid’s Tale"
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How Matthew Lopez transformed “Howards End” into an epic play about gay life
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The Book of Prince: Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live
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The message of measles - As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the US in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease
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The survival of Iggy Pop - An inventor of punk rock on his long career, the future, and swimming in Miami
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A trailblazing plan to fight California wildfires
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
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Underworld: How the Sinaloa drug cartel digs its tunnels
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The shape of things to come
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The hidden cost of GoFundMe health care - When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins
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Liu Cixin’s war of the worlds
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How the elderly lose their rights: Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it
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While Rui Pinto sits in jail, his "Football Leaks" revelations are bringing down European soccer's most famous teams and players
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David Milch’s third act
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Younger longer - With greater longevity, the quest to avoid the infirmities of aging is more urgent than ever
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My childhood in a cult
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Secrecy, self-dealing, and greed at the NRA
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The age of robot farmers - Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it?
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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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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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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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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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US 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 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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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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