Articles Tagged with #children
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Personal Essays
Dear Jack
A father writes his son a note on election night. It gets passed around their family and friends—and soon the entire world. What viral impact looks like, post-Trump.
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Video
The Chinese Prisoner’s Children
The Chinese state makes no provision for prisoners’ children. So when a father is put in jail, his kids’ fates are up for grabs.
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In Plain Sight
Being John
When five million people share your name, your Google-ability is miserably low. Will this forever change naming?
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Phenomena Understood
The Girl on the Lawn
Forget anxiety, overcaution, or just plain unhappiness. The real problem with parenting is philosophy.
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Personal Histories
Our Imaginary Brother Only Watches PBS
How one family schemed to be the best TV-watchers in America.
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Phenomena Understood
Our Dino Love Will Never Die
Dinosaurs haven’t been super-popular for 65 million years—it only feels that way. Fans and experts explain our obsession with dead monsters.
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Gallery
Rodeo Days and Nights
From Texas rodeos to New York City streets, black and white photographs find modern life endlessly surprising.
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Childhood Living
Symbolism for Beginners
For the next week, we’re highlighting some of our favorite works from 2015. In “Symbolism for Beginners,” wild horses lead to psychological and legal warfare.
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Gallery
Playground
Inspired by memories of his own childhood in the UK—part joy, part Lord of the Flies—a photographer studies playgrounds around the world.
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Dispatches
In the Wilderness
A young girl in South Dakota—the last school-age child remaining in her community—epitomizes the challenges of rural American Judaism.
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Science in Fiction
Do You Believe in Ghosts?
Ignore the critics: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is not only a serious, complex comment on space policy, it’s a heartbreaking, philosophical look at the value of time.
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Close Reads
It Made Me Feel Like More Than One Person
You can learn how to read a poem, but you can’t choose how it will affect you. Here, a little cough launches a journey through a reader’s mind.