The New York Times Magazine

“The culture of negation inspires a taste for nothingness and glorifies numbness.”

“A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob, and what comes next.”

“What will we lose when Najin and Fatu die?”

“Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another?”

“The uncertainties of 2020 led the folk duo to discover a new emotional urgency in songs about the slow, challenging, beautiful heat of living.”

“Dozens of military contractors, most of them Black, have been jailed in the emirate—some on trumped-up drug charges. Why has the American government failed to help them?”

“Many progressives mistrust her for her past as a prosecutor. As an ex-convict — and also the son of a crime victim — I can tell you it’s not that simple.”

“It’s an article of faith in the United States that more speech is better and that the government should regulate it as little as possible. But increasingly, scholars of constitutional law, as well as social scientists, are beginning to question the way we have come to think about the First Amendment.”

“The work the artist made near the end of his life changed my understanding of both beauty and suffering.”

“We’re starting the school year with few details about how our fourth grader’s needs will be met.” Millions of disabled students are adjusting to online learning, and the support services that parents have fought for are now at risk.