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Jacob Deng Mach training at the Atlanta Police Academy in May 2012
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Jacob Deng Mach training at the Atlanta Police Academy in May 2012

A Lost Boy Grows Up

12 years after leaving Sudan, a Lost Boy has found that the dream of a better life is both all around and just outside his grasp.

There’s a Reason They Call Them ‘Crazy Ants’

What if you discovered an invasive species that seems drawn to electricity — in your outlets, appliances, laptops and TVs — and no one would listen?

Shoptalk

Positively Fourth Street, All Over Again

Recreating the Greenwich Village of the 1960s, using the East Village, Brooklyn and Chinatown.

It’s the Economy

The Wedding Fix Is In

Can the Internet remedy the price-gouging problem in the wedding industry?

Solve the popular variety puzzles from the Sunday magazine at our newly relaunched hub for New York Times crosswords.

The Lives They Loved: Submit Your Memories

We invite you to contribute stories and photographs of your loved ones who died this year.

The Ethicist

Costly Mistakes and Voter Suppression

Partisan discrimination vs. racial discrimination.

Riff

The Dutch-Elm Disease of Creative Minds

Self-doubt can be a powerful ally in the battle against bad writing. It can also be a powerful obstacle to writing anything at all.

Drink

Pour the Port, Hold the Stodginess

You’re not alone if you think port is only an after-dinner drink, but you’re wrong.

Talk

Lenny Kravitz’s Halfway Mark

The musician on his Bed-Stuy nickname, designing condos and living to 100.

Eat

Not Just for Breakfast Anymore

With a few additions, the tiny pancake is one of the easiest — and most satisfying — dishes there is.

Lives

I Guess I’ll Manage

The terror of having my very own employee.

Reply All

The 11.24.13 Issue

Readers respond.

From The Archive

The Lost Boys of Sudan; The Long, Long, Long Road to Fargo

Sara Corbett’s 2001 article.

Editors' Picks

Lee Harvey Oswald Was My Friend

Fifty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an academic looks back at the summer that might have changed Oswald’s life.

Where Have All the Sopranos Gone?

The ever-earlier onset of puberty is reshaping the legendary Leipzig boys choir.

Diagnosis

Gut-Wrenching

A woman suffers bouts of extreme abdominal pain that come and go and come again.

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A photographic diary of a luxury condominium building’s creation.

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