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    A Nobel laureate’s pedophilia was an open secret among the scientific community. In this week’s issue, Rachel Aviv reports on his dark legacy.

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    In 1989, a group of Soviet scientists was summoned to a secluded village on Moscow’s periphery, to discuss a pioneering technique for mass murder. Experiments had begun to demonst…

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    Cartoons by Ellie Black, Hartley Lin, Matilda Borgström, and Asher Perlman. See more cartoons from the issue:

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    On May 17th, the director general of the World Health Organization declared the current Ebola outbreak a public-health emergency of international concern in the Democratic Republi…

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    “Dukes,” a new show by the “S.N.L.” cast member Jane Wickline and the comedian Liva Pierce, is playful, illuminating, and unpretentiously experimental, Emily Nussbaum writes.

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    “The progression to get to that shot was impactful for me personally,” the celebrity photographer Emily Shur said, about shooting Mike Gordon, the bassist for Phish, in a bathtub…

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    “Theory was cool,” the author of a new book about structuralism and post-structuralism recalls. “Theory was French. Theory was also, strange though it might sound, sexy. . . . The…

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    The artist Florentina Holzinger uses trigger warnings before her extreme performances. “I don’t want to traumatize people forever,” she said. Still, people sometimes pass out, or…

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    The idea that we have a special duty to prevent the death of languages is instantly compelling to anyone who loves languages. But is it true?

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    “I Want Your Sex,” Gregg Araki’s first feature in over a decade, expresses “a dazzling, totalizing sense of optimism,” Justin Chang writes. Read his full review:

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    In a new musical-comedy show, the “S.N.L.” cast member Jane Wickline partners with Liva Pierce to tell the story of two lovable losers—with bad jobs and no girlfriends—who “get” e…

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    David Kirkpatrick spoke with top Biden Administration officials about their handling of the war in Gaza. “I will say straightforwardly—we should have put more pressure on Israel t…

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    In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future?

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    Beauty and ugliness are not just aesthetic ideas—they have cultural, biological, subjective, intersubjective, political, commercial, and historical dimensions. In 2022, the philos…

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    Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

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    The Venezuelan director Lorena Alvarado's “Lost Chapters” features bright, airy images and dialogue of graceful candor, telling a story of bittersweet homecoming and literary ambi…

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    Steve Lacy’s latest record “sounds like post-nut clarity,” the musician jokes. Read Amanda Petrusich’s full interview with Lacy.

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    “In the final, Spain stood for Europe, the industrial heart of modern soccer, and Argentina was the rest of the world. Colonizer against colonized. Method against madness,” Sam Kn…

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    The content from “The Whoopi Monologues” planted the seed of Whoopi Goldberg’s Hollywood stardom. A Lincoln Center production frames its revival as the source of something matrili…

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    The photographer Kent Nishimura began reporting on the White House at the tail end of the first Trump Administration. A new series of his photographs goes behind the scenes of the…

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    Philosophers such as Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida have garnered a reputation for being impenetrable. A new book aims “to recover the hidden human element be…

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    Emily Shur has photographed celebrities for such magazines as GQ, Spin, Rolling Stone, and People. A previously unpublished collection of her Polaroids illuminates her process—and…

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    “The Aqueduct is a loser’s track: grimy, poorly lit, and devoid of affectation,” Rebecca Egan McCarthy writes, about the 132-year-old horse-racing track, wedged next to J.F.K. air…

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    When Venezuela was struck by a series of catastrophic earthquakes this June, the exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado decided that she had to return home. But she’s been…

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    Can you sort the items into the correct order?

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    A lot of its dysfunction goes back to Newt Gingrich.

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    Tell the old story for our modern times.

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    “I Want Your Sex,” Gregg Araki’s first feature in over a decade, stars Olivia Wilde as a sexually provocative artist who begins a B.D.S.M. relationship with her assistant, played…

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    In his photographs of the White House press corps, Kent Nishimura wanted to allow “the people and the moments and the images themselves do the heavy lifting.”

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    The C.D.C.’s parasite-surveillance team, which was instrumental in tracing the origin of the 2013 cyclospora outbreak, had 11 scientists before DOGE began gutting federal agencies…