Articles Tagged with #family
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News From America
Voices of the Walmart
There are eight million stories in a city. How many are there at Walmart? Random telephone calls made to hear about life inside.
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Our Passions, Our Day Jobs
The View From Up Here
Class isn’t supposed to exist in America, unless it’s overcome. But the art of being upwardly mobile doesn’t always come easy.
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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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Gallery
May the Road Rise to Meet You
Traveling the country with the great American salesman, a photographer rediscovers her father.
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Dispatches
Home Sweet Sweden
In a life of perpetual movement, the moment arrives when you find yourself desperate for stillness.
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Novelists in Restaurants Eating Food
Cafe Azteca
Love of food can be love’s most sincere form—especially when avocados are involved—but also bittersweet if paired with departure.
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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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Realpolitiking
They Are Charlie
An American in Dijon, France, brings his country’s grasp of recent terrorism to a nation enthralled by theory, traumatized by attack.
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Explainers
The Marriage Defense
The Supreme Court will soon deliver a definitive ruling on same-sex marriage, a subject that has roiled the United States since the colonial era—or not. A brief illustrated history.
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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.
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Personal Histories
The Gambler
In which the novelist and magician Tim O’Brien makes the author disappear, and a family funeral puts a father’s sleight of hand on full display.
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Realpolitiking
Grading the President
As President Obama enters his final days in office, a proper assessment of his tenure requires a variety of measurable, non-political categories: golf, offspring, homebrewing, and more.