Photos: Reclaimed by Nature
On Earth Day, I wanted to share images of the incredible resilience of nature: the many ways that plants, animals, and natural processes reclaim abandoned human places and find ways to thrive.
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Grab your cough drops. We’re going to battle.
Trump’s Enormous Gerrymandering Blunder
The Republican redistricting effort backfires.
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Fifteen years after Steve Jobs’s death, the company is a successful, if unexciting, powerhouse.
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Modi styled himself a global leader but can’t seem to get ahead of events in the Middle East.
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Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.
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Stories about women living together are proliferating—and offering alternative visions to the nuclear family.
What Abdul El-Sayed Doesn’t Get About Trump
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It is, in a way, a remarkable achievement.
Another Trump Cabinet Member Departs in Scandal
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A Life Hack for the Ultra-Wealthy Is Going Mainstream
More families who can afford it are hiring a house manager, a kind of “chief of staff for the home.”
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Endgame
The world’s richest man is accruing more power than ever before.
Define Jewish State
The phrase is even more complicated than it appears.
Big Sky Crack-Up
Montana Democrats thought they found a novel way to win control of the U.S. Senate—until the party faithful started fighting back.
The Rise of CliffsNotes Cinema
Oversimplified literary remakes miss the point of the works they are adapting.
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Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.
Why Justin Bieber Played YouTube Onstage for Thousands of People
The pop star transformed the normal act of browsing your laptop into something interesting—and unsettling.