Can You Lose Your Native Tongue?
After moving abroad, I found my English slowly eroding. It turns out our first languages aren’t as embedded as we think.
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What I’ve Learned From My Students’ College Essays
The genre is often maligned for being formulaic and melodramatic, but it’s more important than you think.
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Like her character on “Hacks,” she’s winning late-career success on her own exuberant terms.
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Charlamagne Tha God Won’t Take Sides
The radio host talks to Lulu Garcia-Navarro about how he plans to wield his considerable political influence.
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CreditDevin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times The InterviewImagine Your Last Day of Work Ever. Here’s Theirs.
American culture has no set ritual to mark retirement. They created their own.
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the responsibility an institution assumes once it exhibits an artist’s work.
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A Times financial columnist and an illustrator share an exercise that can prepare you for life after work.
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What happens to a company — and the economy — when the boss refuses to retire?
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The EthicistGabriel García Márquez Wanted His Manuscript Destroyed. Is It Wrong to Read It?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to honor a dead writer’s wishes.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Was the 401(k) a Mistake?
How an obscure, 45-year-old tax change transformed retirement and left so many Americans out in the cold.
By Michael Steinberger
Your Neighbors Are Retiring in Their 30s. Why Can’t You?
Meet the schemers and savers obsessed with ending their careers as early as possible.
By Amy X. Wang
The Retirement issueThese Couples Survived a Lot. Then Came Retirement.
For many relationships, life after work brings an unexpected set of challenges.
By Susan Dominus
The InterviewGrief Broke Marlon Wayans. Comedy Put Him Back Together.
The comedian talks to David Marchese on becoming a different person after the death of his parents.
By David Marchese
When a Bunch of Bloody Yanks Came for English Soccer
American investors are gobbling up the storied teams of the English Premier League — and changing the stadium experience in ways that soccer fans resent.
By Bruce Schoenfeld
5 Takeaways From the Times Interview of Brittney Griner
Highlights from a Times Magazine profile of the basketball star.
By J Wortham
‘I Will Never Forget Any of It’: Brittney Griner Is Ready to Talk
In an interview, the basketball star reveals her humiliation — and friendships — in Russian prison, and her path to recovery.
By J Wortham
The EthicistShould I Lie So That My Cousin Can Have a Catholic Wedding?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to fib for a relative, especially when you don’t think the ends justify the means.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
‘Where Is the Palestinian Gandhi?’
Issa Amro, who has been arrested and beaten for simple acts of defiance, is trying to pursue nonviolent resistance in the West Bank at a time when violence has become inescapable.
By Nicholas Casey
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