CULTURE
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Meet the Artist Keeping MetroCards Alive
In 1994, when the MetroCard made its début, many straphangers were reluctant to say farewell to the subway token. Across…
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How Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring Is Changing the Diamond Game
In the antique-jewelry scene, the reveal was the equivalent of a Super Bowl victory. “I think I cried,” Marion Fasel,…
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A Mexican Couple in California Plans to Self-Deport—and Leave Their Kids Behind
In 1995, after a couple of years in Mexico, her mother heard that one of Rosalinda’s brothers was getting into…
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Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025
One year ago, Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, made a bold prediction: “We believe that, in 2025, we may…
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What Can Conversion Memoirs Tell Us?
Eventually, Ash finds in herself a gradual attraction, not only to religious practice but to the wild disharmonies of belief.…
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The Burgled Louvre’s Stolen-Art Expert
I went to look a bit on the Louvre’s website to see the provenance and discovered the recency of the…
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The Year of the Broken Mirror
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Becoming a Centenarian | The New Yorker
My father loved dogs, and so did I. Before the Labs, we had two collies, an English setter, a French…
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Is A.I. Actually a Bubble?
Luckily for managers, building human capital takes a long time. Or, at least, it used to: artificial intelligence is, among…
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If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?
Nguyen is hardly alone in this experience. BookTok, the sprawling and informal literary community on TikTok, has pushed many people…
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