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Video Podcasts Are the New Late Night

Interview shows like Amy Poehler’s Good Hang are taking the place of traditional TV.

Author Sigrid Nunez photographed at Minetta Triangle Park, NYC

The Liberated Women of Sigrid Nunez’s New York

The best stories in It Will Come Back to You could only take place in a big city, where women escape social conventions.

Felipe De La Hoz

Mahmoud Khalil’s Fight for a Normal Life

Mahmoud Khalil raising his hand, standing in front of the doors of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine

Felipe De La Hoz

Mahmoud Khalil’s Fight for a Normal Life

Books & the Arts

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How Decades of Privatization Unleashed Trump’s Warmongering

Two new books illuminate how U.S. foreign policy became vulnerable to unchecked militarism and flagrant corruption.

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Are Fewer Children the Future?

More people are choosing not to have kids. And many who want them are struggling to conceive.