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Parenting by the Numbers
The economist Emily Oster challenges the conventional wisdom on child rearing.
The Startling Image of a Victim of the Virginia Beach Shooting
For all the images that have been broadcast from mass shootings, it is unusual to actually see the carnage up close.
The Netanyahu–Lieberman Saga Reaches a Climax
In refusing to join the Prime Minister’s coalition, prompting yet another election, the hawkish former defense minister may be getting back at his onetime mentor Netanyahu.
Why Mitch McConnell Outmaneuvers Democrats on the Supreme Court
The Senate Majority Leader and his party would push through a Republican nominee while blocking a Democratic choice for one main reason: because they can.
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How the French Turned a Tennis Court Into a Garden
Court Simonne-Mathieu, where some of the French Open matches are taking place, shows that, at their best, both gardens and sport, like grand mountain chains and spectacular sunsets, can approach the sublime.
Trump and Bibi’s Bad Week
They’re both at war with those who would investigate them. But are they winning or losing?
The Envies of Eating in Springtime
Were I to buy all the market spinach and peas I could eat, moths would fly out of my purse as in the cartoons and comics of my youth.
The N.R.A.’s Questionable Charitable Giving
Between 2013 and 2017, the gun-rights group made undisclosed payments to a nonprofit group whose board of directors includes Susan LaPierre, the wife of the N.R.A.’s executive vice-president.
Short Story: “Canvas”
“Stories she thought had left her memory without a trace would come back to strike her with their strangeness.”
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Trump Says He Would Be a Much Better Princess Than Meghan Markle
Calling the Duchess of Sussex “a nasty woman,” the President said, “If I were a princess, I would not be nasty. People would say, ‘Donald Trump is the nicest princess.’ ”
Sorry I’m Late
Literally crossing the street now. I had to stop for a snack. I was craving an apple, so I went to an orchard in Vermont. I’ll tell you all about it when I get there, which is going to be very soon.
Ava DuVernay on the Central Park Five, and #MeToo on TV
The director discusses her new miniseries, about five youths convicted and exonerated of an infamous crime; and The New Yorker’s television critic, Emily Nussbaum, explains a “deluge” of #MeToo plots on television.
“Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo
The films exhibit a tragic logic that dovetails with the real-life revelations of #MeToo, but neither is constructed with anything resembling the courageousness that women in the movement have displayed.
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Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico
In the course of her half-century-long career, Iturbide has dedicated herself to documenting the daily lives, the mores, and the remarkable diversity of Mexican people, always with an eye for the dignity of her subjects.
From This Week’s Issue
Proletarian Szechuan Fare Gets the Palace Treatment
Classic dishes get poetic reinventions and opulent plating, with the same dedication to capsaicin as the originals.
TV’s Reckoning with #MeToo
Many creators are visibly struggling to adjust to the changing landscape, rejecting the “very special episode” path and seeking something more honest and original.
Scents and Sensibility
Ron Winnegrad, the perfumer behind Love’s Baby Soft, coaches his synesthesia students on how to see the colors summoned by pencil shavings, “whale poop,” and the dried glands of the beaver.
Creative
As I once told Harold Pinter, creativity is like a third arm, and my job is to help you free it. He ran off screaming, and that became his first play.