How Trump Radicalized ICE

A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy

Franklin Foer

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The Nastiest Feud in Science

A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate.

Bianca Bosker

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The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain

Science suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it?

Ben Yagoda

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What It Takes to Be a Trial Lawyer If You’re Not a Man

In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs.

Lara Bazelon

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How Poetry Came to Matter Again

A young generation of artists is winning prizes, acclaim, and legions of readers while exploring identity in new ways.

Jesse Lichtenstein

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The Next Populist Revolution Will Be Latino

Reihan Salam

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What It’s Like to Wallow in Your Own Facebook Data

Anna Wiener

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The Gun Guru of YouTube

Graeme Wood

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How to Make Friends, According to Science

Ben Healy

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What Your Boss Could Learn by Reading the Whole Company’s Emails

Frank Partnoy

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The Tricksters of Afghanistan’s New Online-Dating Scene

Maija Liuhto

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That Time Obama Wouldn’t Call a Coup a Coup

David D. Kirkpatrick

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How Lolita Seduces Us All

Caitlin Flanagan

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The Lie of Little Women

Sophie Gilbert

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Giants of the Deep

Rebecca Giggs

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Who Gets to Claim Kafka?

Adam Kirsch

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Sight Is an Unusual Meditation on Motherhood That’s Hard to Put Down

Ann Hulbert

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The Conversation: The Birth of a New American Aristocracy

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Whose Untimely Death Would You Undo?

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