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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 People Have the Right to Say Awful Things Without Facing Legal Consequences?

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Those who want to curtail freedom of speech do not log the debits and credits of censorship, nor do they care about the balance of norms—they act when they have power.

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The Road to Dubai

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The latest round of international climate negotiations is being held in a petrostate. What could go wrong?

6:00 A.M.

Bradley Cooper: Conducting Is the “Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done”

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Bradley Cooper tells David Remnick that he has spent his life preparing for his role in “Maestro” as the iconic conductor Leonard Bernstein—and it shows.

November 24, 2023

At Least We Can Give Thanks for a Tree

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Visiting the largest known white pine.

November 23, 2023

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.

November 22, 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.

Podcasts

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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