Who Benefits When Western Museums Return Looted Art?
The repatriation of stolen objects has become a ritual of self-purification through purgation—but who it really serves is less clear than it might seem.
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The Myopia Generation
Why do so many kids need glasses now?
Welcome to Saturday Night in America
The best time of the week captured by eight photographers in eight different cities across America
Ian McEwan’s Anti-Memoir
The author reflects on a charmed life—and all that could have gone wrong.
The Queen of the World
The paradox of Elizabeth II’s reign was that in presiding over a shrinking empire, she became a modern global monarch.
The Man Who Chased History
The Ukrainian journalist Sergii Leshchenko has a nose for a story and a knack for being in the right place at the right time. I wanted to see the war through his eyes.
‘Lukashenko Is Easier to Unseat Than Putin’
A band of Belarusians is resisting the threat of a neo-Soviet empire by taking up arms in Ukraine.
The Val Demings Gamble
Can the Florida congresswoman inherit Joe Biden’s Democratic Party?
Ukrainians Are Defending the Values Americans Claim to Hold
“You cannot just remain silent, you cannot remain still. You have to do something.”
Scenes From Ukrainian Summer Camp
Can childhood be preserved in a war zone?