
Who Owns the Internet?
What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.
By Elizabeth Kolbert
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The Boston Protests Revealed the Limits of Trumpism
The grievances of those in the Trump movement are obvious. What they want is much less clear.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
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What Trump’s Advisers Say Behind Closed Doors
It’s no secret that some of those most closely involved with the President are deeply worried.
By Jeffrey Frank
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LCD Soundsystem Is Even Older
Known for its old-versus-young frivolity, James Murphy’s band is now mourning greater losses.
By Hua Hsu
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PAID POST
From the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
A sweeping saga about the course of one man’s life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland.
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The Total Solar Eclipse Comes to “Eclipseville,” Kentucky
I stared through my glasses at the last sliver of the sun, a neon-yellow comma, a pause before the big show. Then totality began.
By Carolyn Kormann
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The Beauty of New York’s Oldest Subway Cars
Though now a symbol of the system’s state of disrepair, the R32 cars are genuinely a marvel of mid-twentieth-century engineering.
By Alexander Aciman
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An Appreciation of Michael Barbaro and “The Daily”
Listening to the Times podcast has become a necessary daily practice: like meditation, but with hair-raising breaking news instead of mindfulness.
By Rebecca Mead
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Steamy Summer Reads: Sex, Spies, and a Total Eclipse
Why men should read romance novels; Russian operatives in fiction and reality; and a celestial event described by Annie Dillard.
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Family-Vacation Breakdown
You finished Friday with four door-slams, one meltdown at a Tommy Hilfiger outlet, and one screaming match at a P. F. Chang’s.
By Jen Spyra
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Daily Cartoon
Tuesday, August 22nd.
By Ellis Rosen
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