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Who Was Abdul Raziq?
Uncovering the brutal career of a crucial American ally — and the hidden truths of the war in Afghanistan.
By Matthieu Aikins and Victor J. Blue
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The Ethicist
I’m a Retired Psychiatrist. Is It OK to Befriend a Former Patient?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on professional boundaries.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Judge John Hodgman on What Constitutes ‘Visiting’ a State
Does it count if you never leave the car?
By John Hodgman
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The One Thing That Can Save Cinema From C.G.I. Oblivion
The motion-capture acting in “The Planet of the Apes” movies tries to preserve the magic of the physical world amid all the effects in a big budget franchise.
By Phillip Maciak
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A Dreamy Bean Dip in Under 30 Minutes
Topped with deeply browned onions, this snack is as simple or complex as you make it.
By Yotam Ottolenghi
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Is the Party That Ended Apartheid Losing Its Grip on South Africa?
The African National Congress has long rested on its legacy. But increasingly that isn’t enough to persuade voters to keep it in power.
By John Eligon
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My Secret to Creative Rejuvenation? Conferences.
Vacations are cool, but sometimes you need more than an escape.
By Julia Cho
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Letter of Recommendation
This Scientist Has an Antidote to Our Climate Delusions
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on how to overcome the “soft” climate denial that keeps us buying junk.
By David Marchese
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The Interview
Judge John Hodgman on if We Should Trust Bookitty
A couple’s cat is facing some serious accusations.
By John Hodgman
CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
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The Interview
The Netflix Chief’s Plan to Get You to Binge Even More
Ted Sarandos helped lead Netflix to victory in streaming, but the war for your attention isn’t over.
By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
The Ethicist
Can I Use A.I. to Grade My Students’ Papers?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on artificial intelligence platforms, and whether it’s hypocritical for teachers to use these tools while forbidding students from doing the same.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Ethicist
My Father Sexually Abused Me. Should I Tell My Family?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to disclose a devastating, destabilizing secret.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
When Dynamite Turned Terrorism Into an Everyday Threat
In early 20th-century America, political bombings became a constant menace — but then helped give rise to law enforcement as we know it.
By Steven Johnson
Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into ‘The Unpunished’
Radical forces in Israeli society have moved from the fringes to the mainstream and put Israel’s democracy in peril. Here are the takeaways from our investigation.
By Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti
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The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel
After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.
By Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti
Screenland
How the Language of TV is Influencing How We See Ourselves
TikTok has spawned a curious new way of understanding ordinary life: villain arcs, main character energy and seasons.
By Kim Hew-Low
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She Had Been Coughing for Two Years. The Cause Was a Surprise.
Although her cough lingered, the patient wasn’t particularly concerned — until her X-ray turned ugly.
By Lisa Sanders, M.D.
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Our Reporter on the Radicalization of Israel
For the past fifty years, Israeli officials have failed to restrain a violent settler movement, which has been allowed to operate with few consequences. Some of its most extreme members are now in government. According to officials in the Israeli security establishment who spoke with Ronen Bergman, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, the decades of failure to stop crimes by Jewish settlers and ultranationalists now threaten the future of Israeli democracy.
By Nikolay Nikolov and Ronen Bergman
Read the document
A classified document obtained by The Times describes a meeting in March 2024, when Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox, the head of Israel’s Central Command, responsible for the West Bank, gave a withering account of the efforts by Bezalel Smotrich — an ultraright leader and the official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government with oversight over the West Bank — to undermine law enforcement in the occupied territory. Since Smotrich took office, Fox wrote, the effort to clamp down on illegal settlement construction has dwindled “to the point where it has disappeared.”