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The author reads his story from the July 6 & 13, 2026, issue of the magazine
In this upside-down world there’d be a pig like Ted Waters, who, one blue winter night outside Marjah, had his leg blown off by a bomb disguised as a guardrail
The Vice-President has written a book about his faith that leaves out the most important questions
During a historic heat wave, air-conditioning has become the linchpin of an intensifying political debate in France
The new melodrama, starring Jolie as a movie director, treats the Paris fashion world as a backdrop for medical and domestic crises
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration two major immigration victories on Thursday, siding with the administration in a pair of closely watched cases involving asylum policy and deportation protections. In a 6-3 ruling authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the court upheld the federal government’s authority to turn away asylum seekers at ports of entry
The historian-podcasters Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland explain why losing the thirteen colonies “annoyed” the British, but “it could have been a lot worse.”
In rich, melancholy new films from the directors Carla Simón and Mark Jenkin, the restorative power of cinema turns out to be a shore thing
Bill Pulte, Trump’s pick for acting Director of National Intelligence, has no national-security experience
Tim Pughsley built a sports-betting website that moved billions, then the I.R.S. got involved. In the age of FanDuel and DraftKings, where is the line between legal and illegal gambling?
How the President’s stalled renovation projects inspired a wave of Schadenfreude sightseeing