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.
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In early 20th-century America, political bombings became a constant menace — but then helped give rise to law enforcement as we know it.
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After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.
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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.
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Although her cough lingered, the patient wasn’t particularly concerned — until her X-ray turned ugly.
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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.
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Can You Lose Your Native Tongue?
After moving abroad, I found my English slowly eroding. It turns out our first languages aren’t as embedded as we think.
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What I’ve Learned From My Students’ College Essays
The genre is often maligned for being formulaic and melodramatic, but it’s more important than you think.
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Jean Smart Is Having a Third Act for the Ages
Like her character on “Hacks,” she’s winning late-career success on her own exuberant terms.
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to disclose a devastating, destabilizing secret.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
A couple’s cat is facing some serious accusations.
By John Hodgman
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
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.”
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to honor a dead writer’s wishes.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
The radio host talks to Lulu Garcia-Navarro about how he plans to wield his considerable political influence.
By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
American culture has no set ritual to mark retirement. They created their own.
By Victor Llorente and Charley Locke
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the responsibility an institution assumes once it exhibits an artist’s work.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
A Times financial columnist and an illustrator share an exercise that can prepare you for life after work.
By Ron Lieber
What happens to a company — and the economy — when the boss refuses to retire?
By Emma Goldberg
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