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December 2018
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Unlocking the Solar System
The Juno project will take on the mysteries of the gas giant that may in turn help us understand our own planet’s origins
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Fighting for Their Lives
After the massacre at a Florida high school, these brave students provided a way forward
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Learning to Speak Latino
His uproariously inventive one-man show, soon to be shown on Netflix, puts the story of a neglected culture center stage
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Seeing the Light
A wife-and-husband research team cracks the code to allow certain patients to see again
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The Soul of the New Machine
The musical virtuoso leaves her old persona behind with her third album, Dirty Computer
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Shhhhh Genius at Work
The actor turned director creates a genre-busting horror movie with a terrifying twist—silence
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Poetry to the People
Like Johnny Appleseed, Smith has been planting the seeds of verse across the U.S.
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The New Women Warriors
How the leaders of a farmworkers' alliance reached across cultural divides to fight sexual harassment
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Takin' It to the Streets
Your driverless car is already here, thanks to the visionary engineers behind a bold experiment
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The Costs of the Confederacy
In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology
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The Salvation of Atlanta
One of the war's greatest battles was fought again and again on a spectacular canvas nearly 400 feet long. At last, the real history is being restored
Departments
Discussion
Your reaction to our package of stories about the Holocaust
The Other O'Keeffe
The painter who toiled in the shadow of her celebrated sibling is the subject of a new, major exhibition
Hitting the Panic Buttons
Long before parents freaked over the ubiquitous video game, they flipped out over another newfangled fad
Pipe Dream
Herbert A. Gilbert invented his "Smokeless" in 1963, but he couldn't convince any companies to bring the device to market
Street Wise
Jazz, race and an unlikely friendship inspire the new film about navigating Jim Crow America
Wright and Wrong
A new book advances a controversial theory about the singular contribution that went into the brothers’ pioneering achievement
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