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Best of 2025: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story we selected for the number five slot in our weekly newsletter, in a handy digest.
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A Hackers Reading List and Our Top 5
“Despite endless warnings highlighting the dangers of the digital world, there is a growing acceptance that, in return for the speed and convenience of the internet, we must relinquish a little of our privacy.” In the ’80s, “hacking” wasn’t a familiar concept to most moviegoers. Do you remember watching WarGames for the first time? The […]
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Best of 2025: All Our Number One Story Picks
Every story we selected for the number one slot in our weekly newsletter, all in one place.
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House Arab
The experience of being an elite magazine’s only Arab staffer after October 7.
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America’s Monster
“Uncovering the brutal career of a crucial American ally. And the hidden truths of the war in Afghanistan.”
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Crimes of the Century
“How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.”
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Nowhere in the World To Run: The International Law Ripping Children From Their Mothers
“The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it’s often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.”
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Magical Mystery Toads
The long, tangled, and mostly wrong history of the psychedelic toad.
