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November 2020

Features

A former first lady salutes the long-serving workers who keep the nation’s foremost home running smoothly

Story by Laura Bush, as told to Jennie Rothenberg Gritz; Photographs by Tina Hager

A deadly shortage of venom antidote has spurred a little-known group of scientists in Costa Rica to action

A shear celebration of the ubiquitous boxy bushes that have defined the British landscape since the Bronze Age

Photographs by Kieran Dodds; Text by Peter Ross

She was an international superstar. And then she was ignored. Now one family is working fervently to restore the forgotten genius to greatness

Elaine Sciolino; Photographs by Claudine Doury

Your feedback on anti-Semitic sculptures, the spotted lanternfly and cowboy poetry

Located in front of the National Museum of the American Indian, the sculpture reminds us of the true burden of freedom

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Thanksgiving’s most unexpected legacy is heating up again

Kovie Biakolo

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As a student, the future caricaturist tried his hand at a different type of brushwork

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Today’s social media obsession has its roots in the development centuries ago of the reflective material

Clive Thompson

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