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July 16, 2025

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A gif of different images from the floods: Water gushing into a subway station; trucks half-submerged on a road; a man sweeping away water with a broom; three men standing in the middle of a flooded street with their trouser legs pushed up; and a flooded road.

Brian Fraser for The New York Times, Juan Luis Landaeta via Reuters and Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

Flood Season

We look at recent flooding — and explain what you can do to stay safe.

By Tom Wright-Piersanti

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This Math Tutor Keeps Popping Up in Wes Anderson Films

Michael Maggart, a high school friend of Anderson’s, has no training or aspirations to be an actor. The director keeps casting him anyway.

By Sopan Deb

Alamy/Warner Bros., via HBO; Lorimer Productions via Everett Collection; Ed Araquel/CW; Clay Enos/Warner Bros.; Warner Bros.; Jessica Miglio/Warner Bros.

The Many Takes on Superman: Gruff, Charming or Menschy?

There’s more than one way to play the most classic of superheroes. Here’s how six actors have approached the role.

By Maya Phillips

The Daily

Project 2025’s Other Project

Inside the plan from the Heritage Foundation to rapidly dismantle the pro-Palestinian movement in the U.S.

30 MIN LISTEN

Opinion

The phrase “Never again” in large letters is superimposed on a photograph of a child stepping through rubble.

Photo illustration by Kristie Bailey/The New York Times; source images from Iryna Veklich, Anadolu/Getty Images

Guest Essay

I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

By Omer Bartov

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