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How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
When J.F.K. ran for President, a team of data scientists with powerful computers set out to model and manipulate American voters. Sound familiar?
What Vermont Might Teach Us About Handling the Coronavirus
The Green Mountain State has had the fewest cases of COVID-19 in the country, and it isn’t just—or even mainly—the governor who has carried the day.
How Police Unions Fight Reform
Activists insist that police departments must change. For half a century, New York City’s P.B.A. has successfully resisted such demands.
Olivia de Havilland, the Last Lioness of the Hollywood Studio System
The actress, who died on Sunday, at a hundred and four, spent a lifetime crusading for what she felt she deserved.
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Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force
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The Board-Game Series for the Age of the Coronavirus
Games have exploded in popularity during quarantine, but Pandemic Legacy is more than a diversion.
America’s Looming Primary-Care Crisis
The pandemic could put thousands of doctors out of business. Saving them may require changing how the health-care system works.
A Floating MAGA Rally Washes Up in New York Harbor
When a Trump flotilla (or “Trumptilla”) swarmed into town, its organizers hoped it would “make liberals cry.” The more immediate effect was to freak out the Coast Guard.
Perfecting Roast Chicken, the French Way
The method—call it poach-and-roast—is regarded, at least in France, as the best way to insure a moist and not-ruined chicken.
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With a reading list ranging from W. E. B. Du Bois to Kendrick Lamar, a remote class teaches Philadelphia teens how to express their frustration with society—including, in some cases, their schools.
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Who Gets to Be Italian?
The children of Black immigrants in Italy are dispossessed by a country that doesn’t offer birthright citizenship. Plus, an economist on whether—and how—to reopen schools.
