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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As the 2024 Presidential race nears its end, the country seems more and more divided, with democracy hanging in the balance. For the cover of the November 11, 2024, issue, the…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The cartoonist and illustrator Barry Blitt has created more than a hundred New Yorker covers. Whether he’s rendering Lady Liberty as an anxious tightrope walker or Putin as a blue-green sea…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. We don’t always get to choose our dining…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Florence Mars was born on New Year’s Day, 1923, in Neshoba County, Mississippi, a remote patch in the center of the state, where red clay makes it difficult to farm row…

For the first time in a long time, Washington has a team worth rooting for. Credit: image via Getty Images The Chicago Bears were celebrating too early.  Deep in the fourth quarter of last Sunday’s game against the Washington Commanders,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story According to the script, the title of the latest play by Dominique Morisseau is “Bad Creole Kreyòl.” We go with the simplified “Bad Kreyòl”—the language of Haiti written in its language,…

The late Christopher Hitchens’s work was of a piece, good and bad. Credit: image via Getty Images To many of his contemporaries who approach writing as an act of creative exertion rather than just a vehicle for transmitting thoughts, an…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s commonplace to acknowledge Clint Eastwood as one of the most distinctive and original political filmmakers. What’s surprising about his new film, “Juror #2,” is that the politics it brings to…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the 2010s, affiliate marketing became a dominant strain of online business models. The Wirecutter, which sold to the Times in 2016, made money by driving its visitors to retail Web…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This summer, I bought my wife a vintage watch—a model called the Big Crown Pointer Date, made by the Swiss company Oris. The watch was manufactured in 1995, and is small,…