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Edwin Raymond says that quotas for police activity—which are no longer legal—are still being targeted at minorities.  

Vladimir Putin would like the U.S. to turn over the former ambassador Michael McFaul for interrogation in Russia. Will Donald Trump go through with it?   

The cartoonist Emily Flake’s favorite haunt is a dive bar fronted by a pig on the sidewalk.

Two puzzle constructors on how to create a younger, more diverse audience of puzzle solvers.  

Gadsby’s Netflix special, “Nanette,” deconstructs the violence of comedy. It may be funny, but Gadsby isn’t joking.  

Tangier Island is washing out to sea, and its residents may be among the first American refugees of climate change. But that’s not how they see the loss of their island.

She’s played Queen Elizabeth and King Lear, but in between, she served as a humble member of Parliament for more than two decades.

The poet Ada Limón moved to Kentucky and fell in love with horses all over again.

Hormone therapy couldn’t change the characteristically male bone structure of a trans woman’s face, so she underwent facial feminization surgery.

The teenage activist talks to David Remnick about her plans for the #NeverAgain movement.

The poet laureate says that “green space has fed the inner silence that I think most writers are seeking.”

Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for her oral histories about life in the U.S.S.R.

What we can learn about love by analyzing the work of Motown’s songwriting geniuses.

Josh Rothman is a rare guy who loves romance novels. He tells Curtis Sittenfeld why he thinks other men are missing out.

Henry Worsley set off across Antarctica, on foot and alone. As the journey began to destroy him, his wife faced a painful choice whether to continue supporting his dream.

Jennifer Lawrence on a role that combines two of today’s most critical issues: Russian espionage and sexual coercion at work.

The New Yorker’s Ian Frazier, holding on for dear life, looks at the birth of a new sport: high-speed drone racing.

Mary Oliver, who has been called America’s most beloved poet, conducts a spiritual search for meaning in the woods, by a pond, or anywhere she can closely observe nature.

While the immigration debate rages, farm workers—and farm owners—ponder the fate of American agriculture.

Cartoonists Emily Flake and Drew Dernavich attempt to escape from an escape room.