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    The High Cost of Bad Credit

    Desperate to improve their ratings, Americans now spend billions on “credit repair” — but the industry often can’t deliver on its promises.

     By Mya Frazier

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    CreditPhoto illustration by Lola Dupre

    Tim Robinson and the Golden Age of Cringe Comedy

    His sketch show, “I Think You Should Leave,” zeroes in on the panic-inducing feelings of living in a society where we can’t agree on the rules.

     By Sam Anderson

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    CreditIllustration by Mark Harris

    Why Are the Language Police Obsessed With Vice Presidents?

    They make countless public appearances that will be mostly ignored — unless there’s something to poke fun at.

     By Paul McAdory

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    CreditChris Simpson for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Pamela Duncan Silver.

    These Taquitos Are an All-Night Breakfast of Champions

    Perfect in their simplicity, chorizo and egg taquitos can be whatever you want them to be, whenever you want them.

     By Bryan Washington

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    CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman

    Poem: Preparedness

    Rae Armantrout’s poem appears, at first, to be a matter-of-fact proposition about human beings. Then it gets slippery.

     By Rae Armantrout and Anne Boyer

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    CreditPhoto illustration by Ina Jang

    Her Symptoms Suggested Long Covid. But Was That Too Obvious?

    Doctors make assumptions about a case — and those assumptions can sometimes cloud their judgment.

     By Lisa Sanders, M.D.

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    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy

    Judge John Hodgman on the Probability We’re Living in a Simulation

    Co-workers do some armchair theorizing on statistics.

     By John Hodgman

  1. The Spy Who Called Me

    For years, Spanish society has been rocked by revelations from the secret tapes of José Manuel Villarejo Pérez, a former intelligence agent now facing prison. He told me his story.

    By Nicholas Casey

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  2. The Ethicist

    My Siblings’ Inheritance Depends on Whom They Marry. Is That Wrong?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on conditions parents attach to their wills.

    By Kwame Anthony Appiah

     
  3. The Ethicist

    I Support My Husband’s Career With Unpaid Work. Can I Stop?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on workplace inequities that manifest at home.

    By Kwame Anthony Appiah

     
  4. Letter of Recommendation

    The Immigrant Experience in a Danish Butter Cookie Tin

    Ubiquitous in immigrant households, the cookie tin might be a more apt metaphor for our journeys than the melting pot.

    By Raksha Vasudevan

     
  5. The California Issue

    In California’s Heartland, a New Resistance Movement Is Taking Root

    How do you change a place as polluted and desperately unequal as the San Joaquin Valley?

    By Mark Arax

     
  6. The California issue

    Greetings From ‘Mexicoland’

    A Los Angeles shopping plaza is a preview of California’s Latino future.

    By Héctor Tobar and Deb Leal

     
  7. The California Issue

    First Drought, Then Flood. Can the West Learn to Live Between Extremes?

    When Californians aren’t thirsting for water, they’re drowning in it. But experts see a way to navigate climate swings.

    By Brooke Jarvis

     
  8. The California Issue

    A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom

    In Silicon Valley’s hacker houses, the latest crop of young entrepreneurs is partying, innovating — and hoping not to get crushed by the big guys.

    By Yiren Lu

     
  9. The California Issue

    A Tale of Paradise, Parking Lots and My Mother’s Berkeley Backyard

    Plans to build apartments have sparked a fight between progressive newcomers and nostalgic old-timers — with surprising allegiances in a writer’s hometown.

    By Daniel Duane

     
  10. The California Issue

    California Builds the Future, for Good and Bad. What’s Next?

    From reparations to tax revolts, the Golden State tries out new ideas all the time. What roads will its latest experiments send us down?

    By Laila Lalami