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The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system.

In “I Want Your Sex,” a B.D.S.M. workplace relationship opens up a cross-generational debate about carnal mores.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

Kent Nishimura’s photographs capture the backstage labor that allows the Trump show to go on.

A few weeks before Graham Platner dropped out of the race for U.S. Senate in Maine, he reflected on the kind of veterans who typically serve in Congress. “It’s not grunts who got in drag-out fights and know exactly what it feels like to taste the blood in…

Discrimination against the unattractive is widespread—and widely tolerated.

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 matrilineal.

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?

A lot of its dysfunction goes back to Newt Gingrich.

The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer speaks with two lawmakers in Congress about the immigration crackdown: the Democrat Jason Crow, of Colorado, and the Republican Maria Salazar, of Florida.

In 2025, ICE began detaining people at immigration hearings, an unprecedented step. The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer shares the story of one detainee whose life was turned upside down.

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The author discusses her story “Earthly Delights.”

So then they did it. And it was pretty incredible—pretty incredible for a first time.

The director of “I Want Your Sex,” Gregg Araki, discusses whether Gen Z is having enough of it, casting Charli XCX and Johnny Knoxville, and the importance of “weird, scary, confusing experiences.”

Kylie Minogue’s 2023 hit belongs to a category of solid, danceable pop music that barely penetrates the eardrums of self-professed thirtysomething old folks.

Somssi, from a veteran of the restaurant group behind Atomix, knows how to reel you in without trying too hard.

The author Sheila Heti reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging?