The Baby-Box Lady of America

With the help of safe-haven laws, which allow parents to anonymously surrender their babies, Monica Kelsey has installed more than ninety baby boxes—mailbox-like receptacles for infants—in five states.

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Marisa Tomei Gets Morbid

The movie star, who appears in the recently released “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” visits the Morbid Anatomy Library and discusses arachnoid folklore, death doulas, and why she’s trying to make a TV show about at-home funerals.

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Why Did the Grand Prospect Hall Have to Die?

A legendary Brooklyn institution is being destroyed. Some of those who loved it most didn’t even know that it needed saving.

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American Democracy Isn’t Dead Yet, but It’s Getting There

A country that cannot even agree to investigate an assault on its Capitol is in big trouble, indeed.

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California’s Novel Attempt at Land Reparations

Property seized from a Black family a century ago is being returned to their descendants.

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Big Oil’s Bad, Bad Day

Crushing blows to three of the world’s largest oil companies have made it clear that the arguments many have been making for decades have sunk in at the highest levels.

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Why Jerome Powell and the Fed Should Ignore the Inflation Hawks

Strong growth and a tight labor market are helping workers make sustained wage gains.

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Review: “The Woman in the Window” Is Junk with Visual Verve

Joe Wright’s adaptation of the best-selling book is a run-of-the-mill whodunnit with a persuasive vision of psychological chaos.

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The House G.O.P. Chooses Trump’s “Big Lie” Over Liz Cheney

“Liz is a living reproach to all these cowards,” a friend of Cheney’s said, but the cowards have the votes.

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“The Sons of Sam,” Reviewed: A Netflix Docuseries Confronts a True-Crime Legend

The director Joshua Zeman follows another journalist into the Son of Sam story but leaves their friendship out.

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“Pebbles,” a Starkly Imagined Vision of Patriarchy and Poverty

New Directors/New Films presents an extraordinary first feature by the Indian director P. S. Vinothraj.

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The Trump Administration Is Over, but the Trump Crisis Is Not

Many Republicans are acting like the Capitol insurrection never happened, and much of Washington is fine with it.

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The Significance of the Derek Chauvin Verdict

The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb discusses the trial’s outcome.

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“Duvidha,” an Indian Independent Film That Contains Lessons for American Directors

Mani Kaul’s film about a newlywed couple, from 1973, showcases the cinematic freedom that can come from working hands-on with scant means.

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Biden Finally Got to Say No to the Generals

Critics be damned, the President is ending the Forever War waged by Bush, Obama, and Trump in Afghanistan.

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The Shooting of Daunte Wright and the Meaning of George Floyd’s Death

How much has changed since the events of last spring?

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Vladimir Putin Has a Message: “Hey, Joe, Are You Listening?”

The Biden Administration can’t escape the Russia problem.

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Is Biden Really the Second Coming of F.D.R. and L.B.J.?

Proposing historic legislation is not transformative; passing it is.

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“Nobody,” Reviewed: Bob Odenkirk in a Delusional Fantasy of Redemptive Violence

The actor rebrands himself as an action hero in this clever yet blinkered drama of a retired government hit man.

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