1. Illustration by Hanna Barczyk

    Essay

    The Grief That White Americans Can’t Share

    For our white friends and colleagues, police shootings are a tragedy in the abstract. For black people, they’re agonizingly personal — and devastating.

  2. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

    Essay

    Peter Thiel’s Heroic Political Fantasies

    If the Silicon Valley tycoon shares anything with Donald Trump, it is a disappointment with small politics — and small people.

  3. Emily Shur for The New York Times

    Feature

    The World According to ‘BoJack Horseman’

    The show’s creators have turned the travails of an anthropomorphic horse into a hilarious meditation on a peculiarly modern kind of unhappiness.

  4. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

    Feature

    The Erdogan Loyalists and the Syrian Refugees

    Faced with an influx of new Arab neighbors, a conservative neighborhood in Istanbul struggles with the question of what it means to be a Turk.

  1. Notebook

    Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images

    Reince Priebus Thinks This Went Great

    A visit with the Republican National Committee chairman in his Cleveland bunker.

  3. Lives

    Illustration by Melinda Josie

    The Creative Life in Manila

    Trying to find yourself in the big city.