“Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.”
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House Arab
The experience of being an elite magazine’s only Arab staffer after October 7.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending excellent stories by Tony Ho Tran, Rachel Aviv, Ariel Saramandi, Theo Lipsky, and Inori Roy.
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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either
“Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.”
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The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion
“A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else?”
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Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
“The Trump administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled.”
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Mike White’s Mischievious Vision for “The White Lotus”
“Sex, money, morals, and the making of an ever-shifting franchise.”
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Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud
“A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it.”
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Lake Tahoe’s Bear Boom
“The vacation hot spot has been overrun by people—whose habits are drawing fast-moving animals with sharp claws and insatiable appetites.”
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Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t.
“Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?”
