‘I’m Far Angrier’
Can Cory Booker, once the candidate of love, run for president and stay true to who he is?
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The Forgotten Female Pilots of World War II
The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military service.
The City Where Coetzee Is God
Searching for the Nobel laureate in Cape Town, the city he left behind
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What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind
The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?
When Mentally Ill Teenagers Ask to Be Put to Death
A Dutch psychiatrist gave lethal injections to patients with mental suffering, some of them teenagers. Does that make him a hero—or something else?
Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.
Sucker
My year as a degenerate gambler
The Pete Hegseth Exception
Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences.
Pete Buttigieg in the Wilderness
He has a beard, a splitting maul, and a house in Michigan. Is that enough to convince America that he’s a man of the people?
‘America Doesn’t Want My Children or Grandchildren’
The Cruz family spent years building a life in New York. Then the risks of staying became too great.