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Inside Israel’s Bombing Campaign in Gaza

investigations of the I.D.F.’s use of A.I.-backed targeting systems and the dire cost to Palestinian civilians.

By Isaac Chotiner

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By Susan B. Glasser

The Vatican’s Statement on Gender Is a Missed

A photo of Pope Francis waving as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peters Square in Vatican City.

By Paul Elie

The Legend of Playoff Jimmy on NBA

Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat looks on in a game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. For years now, just in time for the N.B.A.

By Louisa Thomas

Onward and Upward with the Arts

Maggie Rogers and the
Modern Pulpit

The singer-songwriter’s sudden celebrity made her a kind of minister without training. So she went and got some.

By Amanda Petrusich

Books

What stephan breyer
means by justice

In our system of government, the Constitution has the final say. But it doesn’t come.

By Louis Menand

The Catastrophe in Gaza

The Brutal Conditions Facing Palestinian Prisoners

Ofer military prison located between Ramallah and Baytunia in the occupied West Bank. There is a blue tinted overlay on...

By Isaac Chotiner

What It Takes to Give Palestinians a Voice

Palestinians go through a security check by Israeli soldiers as they cross from the West Bank city of Bethlehem to...

By Robin Wright

The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza

A child supported by crutches in a hallway in an apartment complex. The child is missing one leg from the knee down.

By Eliza Griswold

My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza

An illustration of a man in a room where a family is eating dinner. The man sees his brother in the destroyed landscape...

By Mosab Abu Toha

Culture desk

Can a Film Star Be Too
Good-Looking?

Alain Delon and the problem of beauty.

By Anthony Lane

What We’re Reading This
Week

A liberating story that follows a family through the distress of 2020, a biography that revisits the life of the celebrated British explorer Captain James Cook, and a stylish mystery novel in an alternative Jazz Age.


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