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Hooking Up at an Affirmative-Consent Campus? It’s Complicated
By EMILY BAZELON
“Yes means yes” means checking in with your partner during sex, but many young men say they don’t know how to have that conversation.
The Health Issue
What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set?
By BRUCE GRIERSON
Photo illustrations by Zachary Scott for The New York Times. Hair and Makeup: Bruce Spaulding Fuller, Aimee Macabeo, Stephanie Daniel. Wardobe: Gillean McLeod. Set and Props: Patrick Muller. Retouching: Electric Art, Amy Dresser.
Ellen Langer’s experiments have shown that mental attitudes might reverse some ravages of old age. Now she wants to test that same radical principle on cancer.
Christina Holmes for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Pamela Duncan Silver.
Sometimes you have to bring the aesthetics of restaurant food into the home.
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Elimelech Ehrlich (seated), a beggar who travels each year from Jerusalem, talking with students outside Beth Medrash Govoha.
The Beggars of Lakewood
By MARK OPPENHEIMER
A small New Jersey town is world-famous among Orthodox Jews as a place to come ask for handouts.
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Timothy Boatwright (center), a trans man, with his Wellesley classmates.
When Women Become Men at Wellesley
By RUTH PADAWER
Can women’s colleges survive the transgender movement?
Photo illustration by Craig Cutler. Crist: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Scott: Associated Press. Prop stylist: Randi Brookman Harris.
Charlie Crist (left) and Rick Scott (right).
How Billionaire Oligarchs Are Becoming Their Own Political Parties
By JIM RUTENBERG
Is the Florida governor’s race a campaign between a Democrat and a Republican or a battle between Tom Steyer and the Koch brothers?
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Cristela Alonzo
Cristela Alonzo Wants to Make America Laugh
By SUSAN DOMINUS
An old-fashioned sitcom is poised to make her TV’s new working-class comedian.
Columns
It's the Economy
Can You Uber a Burger?
By MATT BUCHANAN
Surge-pricing comes to the restaurant industry.
Talk
Anna Gunn: ‘All the Things I’ve Been in Lately Have Been Quite Murderous’
Interview by DAVE ITZKOFF
The actress on playing TV roles her children can’t watch.
Riff
Streaming Music Has Left Me Adrift
By DAN BROOKS
Now that nearly every song is as easy to find as any other, what are we music snobs to do?
The Ethicist
Why Tell Koko About Robin Williams’s Death?
By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Contemplating the inner life of gorillas.
From The Archive
What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?
Ruth Padawer’s 2012 article on children and gender fluidity.
Photo Essay
Rise and Shine
Photographs by HANNAH WHITAKER
What do kids around the world eat for breakfast? It’s as likely to be coffee or kimchi as it is a sugary cereal.
Forty Portraits in Forty Years
Photographs by NICHOLAS NIXON
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Look
Let a Hundred McMansions Bloom
Photographs by GEORGE STEINMETZ
Converting Chinese rice fields into luxury villas.
Photo Essay
The Women of West Point
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
Photo Essay
On the Ground in Israel and Gaza
Photographs by PAOLO PELLEGRIN and PETER VAN AGTMAEL; TEXT by JODI RUDOREN
Two photographers capture scenes from the most recent outbreak of war.
Look
How a Pair of Twins Redrew an Iconic Photograph With Camera-Like Precision
Photographs by DAVID LA SPINA
With the help of a 30-pound “concave easel,” Trevor and Ryan Oakes are creating a handmade version of an Edward Steichen original.
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Staking Out the Great White Shark
Photographs by MICHAEL MULLER
A rare photograph of a nighttime breach.
Look
Before Learning to Crawl, You Must Learn to Swim
Photographs by SETH CASTEEL
Underwater photographs of infants learning to swim.
Look
Scratch-Off Art on Subway Platforms
Photographs by KEVIN SHEA ADAMS
Finding order in the chaos of layers of advertisements lining the station walls.
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