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One Family’s Perilous Escape from Gaza City
When Israel invaded Kamal Al-Mashharawi’s neighborhood, he crowded into a basement with his extended family. “The world is closing in on us,” he wrote on WhatsApp.
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Should U.S. Aid to Israel Be Contingent on Human Rights?
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Senator Ben Cardin, the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, argues that humanitarian concerns should not hold up funding for Israel’s war effort.
All the Newspapers’ Men
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In Martin Baron’s “Collision of Power” and Adam Nagourney’s “The Times,” two well-known journalists turn their investigative power on their institutions—and themselves.
A New Yorker Contributor Detained by Israeli Forces Is Released
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Mosab Abu Toha, an award-winning poet and a father of three, was taken into custody in central Gaza.
After Forty Years of Democracy, Argentina Faces a Defining Presidential Runoff
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Is the country really so fed up with the status quo that it will elect a right-wing former TV personality?
Features
The Fall of My Teen-Age Self
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This particular April, I’d sworn to my mother I wasn’t smoking. Therefore: stolen cigarettes. Therefore: windowsill.
Piecing Together My Father’s Murder
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I was too young to remember what happened to my dad, and no one explained it to me. So I tried to assemble the story myself.
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“Parker”: One Black Family’s Quest to Reclaim Their Name
A Kansas City family reunites to do something that countless African Americans before them could not do—choose their own last name.