Highlights

  1. Feature

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    CreditJoshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times

    A Lynching’s Long Shadow

    Elwood Higginbotham was murdered by a mob in 1935. For his descendants, a new historical inquiry into his death offers a chance to confront the past.

  2. Feature

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    CreditIllustration by Mike McQuade. Source photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images

    How Devin Nunes Turned the House Intelligence Committee Inside Out

    In inquiries on Benghazi and Russia and beyond, the California congressman has displayed a deep mistrust of the expert consensus on reality — a disposition that has helped him make friends in the current White House.

  3. On Technology

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    CreditIllustration by Jon Han

    Facebook and the ‘Dead Body’ Problem

    Most privacy violations don’t carry a risk of violence — which is exactly why political will on curbing data abuse is so hard to muster.