A doctor uses an initial instead of her first name when publishing academic papers, in order to conceal her gender and be taken seriously as a scientist. A woman who works as the secretary to a male police detective is the actual crime-solver of the duo but…

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The Oscar nominee, who plays a hoodoo healer in “Sinners,” stops at a Brooklyn apothecary and reflects on pregnancy, learning Yoruba, and blessing Michael B. Jordan’s bag.

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On April 22, 1793, President George Washington issued a Proclamation of Neutrality in the war that had just been declared between France and Britain. The United States, Washington decreed, “should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly…

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As the region spasms, the clash between Israel and Hezbollah is gathering force.

In Daniel Chong’s cheerfully ludicrous science-fiction comedy, robot technology enables an environmental activist to walk and talk with the animals.

Days after Israel and the United States launched a bombing campaign that decimated the upper echelons of Iran’s leadership—killing the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and more than forty top officials, according to the Israeli military—the regime…

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As the conflict rapidly spreads throughout the Middle East, the New Yorker writers Dexter Filkins and Robin Wright discuss the stakes for Iran, the U.S., and the rest of the world.

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Late last March, after being held incommunicado for nearly two weeks in a mega-prison in El Salvador, a group of Venezuelans learned that Kristi Noem, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, had arrived to tour the facility. “We were happy when she got here…