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Saying Her Name
The remains of a Black teen-ager who was killed by Philadelphia police in 1985 were treated as an anthropological specimen. How was her identity known and then forgotten?
By Heather Ann Thompson
The Larger Lesson of Liz Cheney’s Ouster
It is to her credit that she stood up to Trump, but, with the Middle East erupting again, let’s be careful that we don’t also embrace her bellicose foreign-policy views.
By Nicholas Lemann
Mary Beard Keeps History on the Move
For Beard, change has always been a part of classics: we need to expose the field’s flaws to understand how we’ve inherited them.
By Katy Waldman
The Freeing Fashion Behind the Halston Saga
A new Netflix series about the designer’s turbulent life hits all the tabloid plot points but misses the soul of his work.
By Rachel Syme
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Sunday Reading: Searching for Love
From the archive: a selection of pieces about looking for and finding love in all its varieties.
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Why It’s Important That Twelve-Year-Olds Can Now Get a COVID Vaccine
We are in a pandemic from which, as much as one might wish it, children have never been exempt.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin
Trump Is Still Lying About the 2020 Election
What the ousting of Liz Cheney tells us about the troubled future of the Republic.
By Susan B. Glasser
The Achievement of “The Underground Railroad”
In a reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s novel, the portraitist Barry Jenkins is a virtuosic landscape artist.
By Doreen St. Félix
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions
From 2019: a Profile of the author of “The Woman in the Window,” now adapted as a Netflix movie.
By Ian Parker
The Rise of the Thielists
Has the Republican Party found its post-Trump ideology?
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
A Powerful Film About Iranian Executioners
“There Is No Evil” reveals horrific truths about capital punishment in the Islamic Republic.
By Richard Brody
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, from the science of vaccines to the culture of quarantine.
Racial Injustice and Policing
Black Lives Matter, police brutality, and the long history of racism in America.
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The impact of the pandemic and the efforts at recovery.
The Future of Democracy
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From This Week’s Issue
Sheelah Kolhatkar on Robinhood and Wall Street, David Sedaris on thirty years with Hugh, Jiayang Fan on the world’s most disgusting food, and more.
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Respectable Book Covers
An innovative, discreet way to hide your atrocious literary tastes.
By Arantza Peña Popo
An Introduction to Asshole Cat Behaviors
Changing your passwords, not inviting you to any of the items on their busy schedules, and other ways in which cats fall short of our expectations.
By Tom Papa
Stefanik Swears to Defend Trump from Constitution
Stefanik raised her right hand and rested her left on a first edition of “The Art of the Deal.”
By Andy Borowitz
A Message from Your Newly Elected Green Team President
A big thank-you to all our volunteers from last night’s “If It Ain’t Woke, Fix It!” fund-raiser.
By Leah Wolchok
Illustration by Liana Finck
Emily Post’s Post-Pandemic Etiquette
A gentleman must always remember that, unlike on Zoom, there is no mute button for real life.
By Nicky Guerreiro and Ethan Simon
Fiction & Poetry
“Children of the Good Book”
“My cousins took their God in heaping portions, just like their momma, and they ate the same way.”
By J. M. Holmes
“Skeletons”
“Sundays I spend feeling sorry for myself I’ve got a / knack for it I’m morbid.”
By Deborah Landau
J. M. Holmes on Black Manhood in America
The author discusses “Children of the Good Book,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.
By Deborah Treisman