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Illustration by Paul Spella*

My Father, the Fool

I’d run out of sympathy for COVID skeptics. Then I remembered my father’s stiff neck.

Photo illustration by Adam Maida. Sources: Mississippi Department of Corrections / AP.

A Good Man, at One Time

How a Mississippi inmate became an advocate for his own execution

Lynsey Addario for The Atlantic

Absolute Power

Asked about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman said, “If that’s the way we did things, Khashoggi would not even be among the top 1,000 people on the list.”

Vartika Sharma

The Twitching Generation

Around the world, doctors have noticed teenage patients reporting the sudden onset of tics. Is this the first illness spread by social media?