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May 18, 2015

Cover Story

Can Racism Be Stopped in the Third Grade?

Fieldston’s attempt to do so asks 8-year-olds to sort themselves by race. By Lisa Miller

On the Cover: Photograph by Bobby Doherty.

Features

Tinderbox

Why do America’s riots so precisely mirror each other, generation after generation after generation?

By Frank Rich
The Star on the Sidewalk

Arielle Holmes, the methadone starlet.

By Amy Larocca
Boyhood

Who’s freaked out by a robot with an expanding brain? Jeopardy! champion Watson comes of age.

By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Intelligencer

Culture

The Cut

Girls in the Van

The most talented — and stylish — women making music this summer.

Departments

Strategist

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