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Letter from Baghdad
An Activist in the Sex-Trafficking Underworld of Iraq
By Rania Abouzeid
A former prostitute evades Islamic militias to rescue her country’s most vulnerable women.
A former prostitute evades Islamic militias to rescue her country’s most vulnerable women.
Is China moving fast enough to save the African elephant?
President Xi prefers to call the differences between America’s regulatory conditions and China’s “national realities.”
In 2015, there is no better embodiment of the state’s dizzying, orphic appeal.
Far from challenging the tax-plan fantasies that have become G.O.P. orthodoxy, Donald Trump embraced them wholesale.
Our new home is straight out of a storybook—specifically, Stephen King’s “It.”
The Chinese President’s trip that confirmed the degree to which China is trying to reorder the world around its politics, tastes, and sensitivities.
The first installment in our For Your Consideration series is about a married couple subjecting a friend to a rather intense version of a blind…
Far from challenging the trickle-down/supply-side fantasies that have become G.O.P. orthodoxy, Trump embraced them wholesale.
With “Honeymoon,” Del Rey has reached a détente with her misery, her sense of remorse, of indignation. She has reached the end of a line.
Sure, it was frustrating to be priced out of SoBoNoBe, but there’s tons of old-school charm to be found here in Foul Creek.
Most politicians know Jorge Ramos as the gateway to the Latino vote. Trump told him to “go back to Univision.”
The making of a revolutionary new musical.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on “Between the World and Me” and his life and career.
Why do moral people make us uneasy? It maybe be guilt, or irritation. But that’s not the whole story.
A century-old sawdust factory is reopening as a nonprofit classical-music venue in Williamsburg, and it’s attracting influential musicians.
The Nobel Laureate set out to solve the mysteries of the French Occupation. Instead, he created his own.
Kaluk is a fledgling business that offers street performances as a marketing strategy.
The Financial Times’s success is a bright spot in a depressing decade for newspapers.
In New Hampshire, the Presidential candidate elicited ugliness, and he got it.
The congressman said that he plans to begin every day with a good breakfast and a vote to revoke the Affordable Care Act.
Historical and psychological factors have combined to make them seem less like criminals and more like celebrities.
Tobi Schülert, the cartoon editor for the German magazine Stern, pays a visit to The Cartoon Lounge.
In “The Intern,” Nancy Meyers sketches a hard-edged portrait of a heroine of the times as well as a softball fantasy of the moment.
Carrie Battan and Kelefa Sanneh join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss R. & B. artists from the Weeknd to Aretha Franklin.
Influenced by his own amateur track endeavors, the photographer Mark Davis began taking pictures of Edward Cheserek in 2012.
In his first public appearance in New York, Pope Francis took part in evening prayers at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, on Thursday evening. The service, attended by about twenty-five hundred clergy members, was in sharp contrast to the festive scene outside the cathedral.