“I came to a shack with a small, white-haired man inside. I assumed he had been guarding Devil’s Bridge for centuries. I answered his riddles three and he gestured for me to sign in. At the end of his hand was a damp pile of papers and a pen on a gray string. Like most […]
A harrowing first-person account by one of the last Americans journalists to leave Moscow after Russia invaded Ukraine: I closed the windows, turned off the water and gas. I snapped a few photos of my favorite room in the apartment — my study filled with books and art I’d collected over the decades…. I sat […]
“Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.”
This week, our editors recommend notable features and essays by Katie Barnes, Rachel Handler, Alex Hawkins, Lila Shapiro, and Raksha Vasudevan.
“Once weekly fare, I now have cholent only a few times a year; I, too, am no longer observant. I don’t think this is a coincidence. Which is to say that, while I stand by the choices I’ve made and the life I am choosing to live—different from how I was raised, but no less […]
This week’s edition highlights stories by Joshua Yaffa, Ritwika Mitra, Jason Nark, Andrew Bullis, and Angie Kang.
Behind the 1s and 0s, hackers are still people—and their motivations are more nuanced than you might think.
OpenAI’s Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.
A forgotten deportation, a family archive, and the cost of belonging.
Five notable personal essays published this year, on friendship, loss, war, endings, and metaphors.
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