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“A legend is growing in Nepal, where people say a meditating boy hasn’t eaten or drunk in seven months. He barely moves, just sits under a tree, still as a stone. It’s impossible, some say. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Let’s find out.”
How the fashion industry collapsed.
Brutality and resistance on the front lines of Hong Kong’s battle for democracy.
How the FBI manufactures phony crimes to arrest so-called terrorists.
The world is consumed by violent fights and hostile disagreements. Sarah Schulman sees a way out of them.
Cultures clash when a man bonds with his boyfriend's mother.
Far too many county jail inmates are dying from suicide, a cause of death critics say can be prevented with reasonable health care services. The problem? Private correctional health care firms may have a goal other than providing adequate care.
Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a bottle of Bud Light.
A profile of the author at 84.
Jenny Kleeman is a journalist, broadcaster and the author of the new book Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex, and Death.
“It’s better to cover one thing in a really illuminating way than to try and explore every single aspect of a topic in a really superficial way. So if there’s one thing that particularly interests you or fascinates you, if there’s just one question you want to ask, do as much research as you can on that one question and you’ll end up with a much more illuminating interview than something that is a precis of their entire field. Because anyone can do that.”
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How a sacred object from the Pueblo of Acoma turned up at a Paris auction house, and how the tribe fought for its return.
On the app, users drape themselves in the trappings of Black culture—and steal the viral spotlight. It’s exploitation at its most refined and disturbing.
A portrait of Harlem.
On Wall Street, being Black often means being alone, held back, deprived of the best opportunities.
The refugee and author survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?
Activists insist that police departments must change. For half a century, New York City’s P.B.A. has successfully resisted such demands.
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude. The breadth and magnitude of its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom.”
Two friends try to make a dream come true.
What the journey of swifts, who spend all their time in the sky, tell us about the future.
“My mother and I were very close, but when she died last year there was still so much I didn’t know about her.”
The story of the family who couldn’t stop adopting.
The problems go much deeper than food safety and point to an industry that systematically rewards and enables star chefs while asking few critical questions about the workers who often power their success.
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
All he wants is his own room and a kitchen where he can bake chocolate cake. He dreams of it while he sleeps in tents in parks and under the freeway.
The summer of a teenage werewolf.
