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August 12, 2025

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Joseph Awuah-Darko faces the camera wearing a black long-sleeved garment his right hand covering his mouth.

He Announced His Intention to Die. The Dinner Invitations Rolled In.

On Instagram, the artist Joseph Awuah-Darko asked the world to invite him to dinner before he ended his life. More than 150 meals later, he is still going.

By David Segal and Ciril Jazbec

Silver Pictures

‘Road House’ Still Reigns as the Best Bad Movie

In 1989, Patrick Swayze played a bouncer at an outrageously out-of-control bar. It set a standard for a movie that’s irresistible, almost in spite of itself.

By Maya Salam

The Daily

Trump Sends the National Guard Into Washington, D.C.

The president’s announcement was an extraordinary exertion of federal power over an American city.

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Opinion

A glitchy, pixelated photograph of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

Photo illustration by The New York Times; source photograph by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

Zeynep Tufekci

The A.O.C. Deepfake Was Terrible. The Proposed Solution Is Delusional.

Critical thinking is not going to save us.

By Zeynep Tufekci

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