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The Rabbit Outbreak

A highly contagious, often lethal animal virus arrives in the United States.

The Future of Democracy
An encrypted ballot

Can Our Ballots Be Both Secret and Secure?

A mathematician’s quest to make American elections more trustworthy.

Under Review
Gynecological cabinet with chair and other medical equipment in modern clinic.

The Study That Debunks Most Anti-Abortion Arguments

For five years, a team of researchers asked women about their experience after having—or not having—an abortion. What do their answers tell us?

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Virginia Woolf.

How Virginia Woolf Kept Her Brother Alive in Letters

For Woolf, correspondence became a way to transcend a climate of illness—to envision a future she couldn’t see.

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Katie Crutchfield.

The Unexpected Sunlight of Waxahatchee’s “Saint Cloud�

Katie Crutchfield’s fifth solo album, which was released just as the country went under coronavirus lockdown, has become a talisman of the self-isolation era.

Culture Desk
The battlefield in Starship Troopers

“Starship Troopers� Aligns with Our American Defeat

Once again, the present has caught up to Paul Verhoeven’s acid vision of the future.

Culture Desk
Martin Scorsese with Steven Prince in a hot tub.

Steven Prince, an Early Scorsese Star, “Was the Guy with the Gun�

The subject of the newly reissued documentary “American Boy� is alive and well and still full of stories.

American Chronicles
Dollar general store.

The True Cost of Dollar Stores

Discount chains are thriving. But what do they do to poor communities?

Crossword
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A Moderately Challenging Puzzle

Pronoun separators in many a Twitter bio: seven letters.

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Tough-Guy Things I Can Do Because I Don’t Wear a Face Mask

A man smokes a cigar.

I can spit anywhere I want. I can smoke big-ass cigars. I can grit my teeth to show that I’m not exactly happy with how close you’re getting to my PT Cruiser.

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Rediscovering “The Happy Ending,� a Movie About the Dreams and Delusions of Marriage (and the Movies)

A still from "The Happy Ending."

Richard Brooks’s passionate and cinema-centric drama, from 1969, burrows deeply into one woman’s harrowing experience of domestic life.

July 7, 2020

Putin Admits Taking SATs for Trump

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

“I often asked myself, ‘How will Donald Trump ever repay me for putting him on the path to Wharton?’ � the Russian President said.

July 7, 2020

Kevin James Can Wait

Kevin becomes increasingly impatient and agitated while in a doctor's office waiting room.

The “King of Queens� actor demonstrates remarkable patience.

July 7, 2020

Bonus Daily Cartoon: Second Wave

“Come on in, the water is fine.�

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Tables for Two
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Foraged Foods Shorten the Supply Chain

Chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms that fry up like their namesake, snappy sea beans that need no extra salt, sassafras syrup, and other edible offerings from the wilds outside the city limits.

Books
David Mitchell

What Happens When David Mitchell Writes a Rock Novel?

A conventional story of a band’s rise turns into a book on another plane entirely.

Dept. of Renovations
removing art

What to Do About a Room with a “Vues�?

The wallpaper “Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord� was criticized for being too French when it was first installed in the White House. Now the Spence School is removing the paper from its walls, after black students said that it “glorifies the trans-Atlantic slave trade and abuse of Indigenous peoples.�

Fiction
Woman with large star earring.

“A Transparent Woman�

“She asked if she was under arrest. No, what made her think that? They were just going to have a little chat. The threat hidden in that twee bloodless phrase.�

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When Humanitarian Aid Is Considered a Crime

Scott Warren's arrest for providing shelter to two migrants posed a question to his community and the court: Under what circumstances could humanitarian aid be deemed illegal?

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