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“What’s the best question a kid ever asked you?” When the writer Sarah Manguso tweeted this, she received a deluge of responses. See some of the answers, with illustrations by the cartoonist Liana Finck.

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In an increasingly provocative world, many of us seek to manage our emotions. But instead of asking whether you’re overreacting, you might ask, Am I reacting as usefully as I can?

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Pope Francis was broadly popular around the world, especially among liberals. But toward the end of his life, his approval ratings dipped in the U.S. and some Latin American nations. But no country witnessed a sharper drop than his native Argentina.

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Travel gets branded as an achievement: see interesting places, have interesting experiences, become interesting people. Is that what it really is?

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The new miniseries “Dying for Sex” has a morbid, somewhat off-putting hook: a woman with terminal cancer looks to get laid while she still can. But the show is “also something of a Trojan horse,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

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From tech barons to podcasters, a climate of supplication to the President has taken hold in Washington. Antonia Hitchens reports.

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“The most heartening, and maybe most important, event of the Trump Administration so far arrived just after 1 A.M., on Saturday, in the form of an unsigned order from the Supreme Court,” Ruth Marcus writes. Will the Justices continue to stand up to Trump?

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Harvard’s actions could have important ramifications not just for other universities but also for broader efforts to resist Donald Trump’s encroachments.

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President Trump is threatening to push the Senate from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. Will John Thune, the new Majority Leader, let him?

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A collection of photos of Pope Francis through the years: nyer.cm/o6ShNK0

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A scene in the stage adaptation of “The Years” that describes the aftermath of an illegal abortion has caused some audience members to faint. It wasn’t that it was so visually shocking, one faintee insisted. “It just came from deep within me.”

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Donald Trump’s deportation obsession “threatens everybody, citizens and non-citizens alike,” Jonathan Blitzer writes.

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The Trump Administration’s assault on American academic health and science has targeted 10 public and private universities, jeopardizing an enterprise that made America the world leader in technology and innovation, Atul Gawande writes.

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Mary Magdalene has been portrayed as a sinner, a nun, a mystic, and Jesus’ wife. The patron saint of outcasts, she embodies uncertainty. “To engage with her story requires divine imagination,” Eliza Griswold writes.

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From 2017: How do you live after unintentionally causing a death?

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Pope Francis, who died today at 88, was the antithesis of a strongman. “He was the model of the world leader as a shrewd, searching, and practical man who faced hard choices in vexing circumstances, and responded humbly,” @paulelie.bsky.social writes.

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During the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Clayton Dalton travelled through Gaza visiting hospitals, getting an unusually complete picture of the state of Gaza’s medical infrastructure. He witnessed a health-care system in ruins.

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As the Trump Administration talks openly of sending troops across the Mexican border, President Claudia Sheinbaum has denounced the “interventionist spirit at the door.” Yet her government is coöperating with Trump to an extraordinary degree.

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Hearing aids and cochlear implants have been getting better for years, but a new type of device—eyeglasses that display real-time speech transcription on their lenses—are a game-changing breakthrough.

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Why Donald Trump’s decision to target Harvard may turn out to be a fortunate miscalculation for the preservation of academic freedom.

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In Donald Trump’s Washington, the imperative has never been more plain: to get ahead or to stay out of trouble, praise the President as much as he praises himself.

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Pope Francis has died at age 88. Through sheer personableness, he brought the papacy down to earth, and throughout his tenure remained a man who wasn’t defined by his role.

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Though Season 2 of HBO’s “The Last of Us” gives its characters’ individual dynamics more room to breathe, it ends up feeling smaller than its predecessor over all, @inkookang.bsky.social writes. Read her review.

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The most disturbing possibility isn’t that millions have been brainwashed. It’s that they haven’t.

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Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?

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The government’s conduct in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man illegally sent to a Salvadoran prison, is bad enough standing on its own. It is worse because it is part of a pattern of high-handed obstructionism.

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From 2020: Jill Lepore on what we can learn from the upheaval of the 1930s.

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“The most elaborate—and the most fragile—lie I’ve ever come up with is me.” New fiction by Domenico Starnone.

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“There’s no bewilderment or confusion on display, no underlying contradictions. Here she is, in totality.” Carrie Brownstein revisits Richard Avedon’s portrait of Cat Power that appeared alongside a 2003 review by Hilton Als. #NewYorker100

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“It’s the best cheesesteak I’ve had in New York, which isn’t saying much; it’s just as good as the best one I’ve had in Philadelphia, which is saying plenty.” Helen Rosner reviews the new Philly-cheesesteak restaurant co-owned by Bradley Cooper.

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Right-wing ideologues have long fantasized about the prospect of mass self-deportation. The Trump Administration is attempting something far more radical.

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Hitler’s rise to power shows how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following.

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Aimee Semple McPherson is a blessed sister to some and a conniving sinner to others. Did she stage her own kidnapping?

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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

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What happens if the courts can't stop the Trump Administration? “Then we’ve got to take to the streets in a different way,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the A.C.L.U., tells David Remnick. “We've got to shut down this country.”

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Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.

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In an era of widespread L.G.B.T.Q.+ acceptance, how do you fashion a breezy yet serious-minded romantic comedy predicated on the deceptions of the closet? @justincchang.bsky.social reviews a new remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 film, “The Wedding Banquet.”

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More people who never aspired to be activists but oppose the new order are finding that they must traverse a labyrinth of novel choices, calculations, and personal risks. Here’s a practical guide to help.

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“When an aspiring autocrat comes to power the second time, he is much more dangerous than the first time,” the historian and philosopher Jan-Werner Müller says.

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Patrick Clancy’s wife killed their children during a postpartum mental-health crisis. Prosecutors describe a clear-headed scheme, but Clancy says, “I wasn’t married to a monster—I was married to someone who got sick.”

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Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but with him ailing, the Church, like other institutions, may need to find new ways to sustain its commitments.

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Mary Magdalene has been portrayed as a sinner, a nun, a mystic, and Jesus’ wife. The patron saint of outcasts, she embodies uncertainty. “To engage with her story requires divine imagination,” Eliza Griswold writes.

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The photographer Cig Harvey’s work captures a less understood—or even displaced—beauty, Ocean Vuong writes.

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“I liked my younger face. We had a good life together. That face is dead now.” Sarah Miller on getting Botox.

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Why has Disney’s new live-action remake of “Snow White” flopped at the box office? Recent articles pin much of the blame on Rachel Zegler. But the real reasons behind its implosion are “structural and multifaceted,” Jessica Winter writes.

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A growing movement seeks to destigmatize going “no contact” with one’s relatives. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations?

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“Like air travel and Coachella, young children are optimized for spreading disease,” Kathryn Schulz writes. “You should fear any place they congregate.”

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Clayton Dalton visited hospitals across Gaza as part of a medical aid mission. In one, he was stunned to see medical devices that looked like they had been methodically destroyed. (The I.D.F. denies that it has deliberately targeted medical equipment.) nyer.cm/A3NSjgV

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“Risotto is governed by a set of laws that are rooted in tradition, rich in common sense, and aching to be broken or bent,” Anthony Lane writes. Get his tips for making the perfect version of the Italian staple.

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