New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art plans an exhibition of pioneering celebrity photographer Adolf de Meyer, famed for his shimmering style.
Ideas
A new book looks at forward-looking models from the 1930s on.
Weekend Confidential
From Hedge Fund to Health Food
Former hedge-fund manager Michael Karsch found a healthier new career in Juice Press.
Research on copycats suggests that the often sensationalistic media attention given to perpetrators is central to why massacres are happening more.
Some families have a rule: no politics at Thanksgiving. Jason Gay asks, why not? With a few guidelines, it might just be the excitement your dinner needs.
The Saturday Essay
Iraq’s Surprise: The Persistence of Democracy
The country’s political experiment has nearly come apart on many occasions since the U.S. invasion of 2003, but Iraq still has free elections and a robust press, which makes it an exception in the Middle East
Making bad money decisions is a hallmark of humanity, but lessons from behavioral economics can help improve our personal finances.
Word on the Street
Why ‘Inside the Beltway’ Is a Target of Populists
Ben Zimmer explains how the phrase “inside the Beltway’ became a populist byword for Washington bureaucrats’ incomprehension about America.‘
Historically Speaking
A Short but Tasty History of Pumpkin Pie
A plant family’s 60-million-year odyssey from Asia ended with the creation of a Thanksgiving staple, Amanda Foreman reports.
Moving Targets
Subscription Boxes Run Amok
With subscription services growing more popular, Joe Queenan ponders what’s next: The Marsupial of the Month Club?
Everyday Math
Fruit, Veggies and How to Depict The Universe
Questionnaires and mathematics share a goal: to depict a complex world. Eugenia Cheng on how the pitfalls and strategies common to both.
NBA hall-of-famer Bernard King recalls how Stevie Wonder’s “Ribbon in the Sky” helped him through a crisis.
The remnants of a platoon’s home base signal the failure of efforts to bring stability to a Sunni stronghold in Shiite-majority Iraq.
A new book features ephemera such as candy wrappers, ticket stubs and postcards from North Korea.
Midsize manufacturers from China, seeking low costs and unfazed by obstacles, are having a transforming effect in African countries.
A new exhibition in Washington, D.C., showcases portraits of everyday people, many of them laborers.
Weekend Confidential
Stephen Dubner Has Some Questions
The ‘Freakonomics’ co-author has made a career out of unearthing surprising facts about how the world works.
Word on the Street
A Wealth of Wordplay Inspired by Thanksgiving
Something about the holiday lends itself to new words, from Franksgiving to Friendsgiving to turducken.
High-tech health care hasn’t proved effective at changing patients’ bad habits.
The Saturday Essay
The Secrets of Resilience
What does it take to conquer life’s adversities? Lessons from successful adults who overcame difficult childhoods.
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