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An N.F.L. pro, whose son now plays football, struggles to balance safety against a certain necessary brutality, and BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith on why he broke the norm to cover Trump. (episode)
BuzzFeed published an unverified dossier an unverified dossier full of damning information about Donald Trump and Russia. Did it damage the media’s credibility at a precarious moment?
Knowing what we know about football injuries and brain damage, would you let your kid play?
Reporting all day can make your head spin; here’s how Adam Davidson unwinds.
Texting a new crush is tough, especially when you’re an alien with apocalyptic plans.
Cartoonist Liana Finck likes to work on the train, but she doesn’t commute. She just needs a place to work.
We take the temperature of the Middle East peace process. Plus, Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, Run the Jewels’ oldster rap, and the life­saving benefits of a standing desk. (episode)
Three perspectives on the narrowing chance for an agreement between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza.
Hua Hsu recommends rap for older folks.
Sitting is the new smoking. Time to quit.
Elizabeth Bishop’s unpublished letters reveal a lot we didn’t know about the twentieth ­century master.
Ian Frazier explores indoor farming; Dan Savage tells David Remnick a thing or two about sex; and Amy Davidson asks, Why Angela Merkel but not Hillary Clinton? (episode)
Amy Davidson asks what it will take to elect a woman as President.
Lincoln was not only a great political leader but a great spiritual figure in the eyes of the fiction writer George Saunders.
Mr. “Monogamish” on Ann Landers and Donald Trump
A bolero, a curatorial Twitter feed, and a surrealist cookbook.
Ian Frazier visits the farm of the future, in an industrial building in New Jersey.
Newt Gingrich talks about the opioid epidemic and Donald Trump’s Twitter habit; Patricia Marx tries to relax, and fails. (episode)
What does an owl tell himself when he needs a little boost?
The “godfather of gridlock” is backing an effort to treat addicts instead of punishing them, but will the Trump Administration share his faith in science?
A young man learns about love by analyzing the work of Motown’s songwriting geniuses
Terrorist attacks have pushed Turkey’s president to an increasingly authoritarian, repressive government
“Flotation therapy”—also known as sensory deprivation—is a trendy way to disconnect. But sometimes relaxing is just too stressful.