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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.

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The Supreme Court’s Self-Excusing Ethics Code

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Under the Court’s new rules, the Justices appear not to have made any mistakes.

November 21, 2023

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.

November 21, 2023

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.

November 20, 2023

After Forty Years of Democracy, Argentina Faces a Defining Presidential Runoff

A photo of Argentina’s Presidential candidate Javier Milei, greeting supporters during a rally.

Is the country really so fed up with the status quo that it will elect a right-wing former TV personality?

November 18, 2023
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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.

The Violence of the Rams

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I know you can’t hold animals to human standards. That said, rams are assholes.

Joyce Carol Oates’s Relentless Search for a Self

In more than a hundred works of fiction, Oates has investigated the question of personality.

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A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad

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Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt talks about antisemitism “from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between.” It threatens not only Jews, she says, but the stability of democracies.

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