(Sub)Culture Features
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‘With Gaza, I Couldn’t Not Speak Out’: Ms. Rachel on Controversy, Fame, and the Future
The children’s YouTuber has drawn outrage and adoration for her work. As her first album, I’m So Happy, drops, she discusses how she’s surviving her newfound celebrity
- Exclusive
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Kai Cenat’s Runway Show Felt Like 2016 New York in the Best Way
With Vivet’s runway debut, the Twitch star brought his world to Fashion Week and gave skeptics reason to take his ambitions seriously
- High Fashion
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A Kansas Cold Case Was a True-Crime Hit. Did True-Crime Media Change Its Ending ?
HBO’s new three-part docuseries ‘A Killer Story’ unpacks one of the state's most notorious cold cases and the woman serving time for a murder she says she didn’t commit
- True Crime
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I’m a Princeton Student. The Story of Its Ties to Slavery and Exploitation Must Be Remembered
A journalism class opened my eyes to the school’s complicated history with slave owners and plantation labor. Now, I want to spread the truth and find a path to reconciliation
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David Foster Wallace on 9/11, as Seen from the Midwest
Suddenly everybody has flags out — big flags, small flags, regular flag-size flags
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‘A Two-Hour Escape’: Inside Savannah Bananas’ Record-Breaking Night at Kyle Field
In front of crowd of 102,000, Banana Ball sets new milestones while featuring plenty of Texas flair
- Home Run!
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Prediction Markets Are Buying Their Way Onto the Internet’s Front Page
Services like Kalshi and Polymarket are manufacturing cultural moments that will live on, no matter what kind of regulation the platforms face
- Instant Hits
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On 9/11, Not a Single Patient Arrived at the Triage Center
Rescue workers turned Chelsea Piers, the sports-and-leisure complex on the Hudson River at West 23rd Street, into a makeshift emergency room. But there were no survivors to treat
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‘You People’ Did This: Living in Fear After 9/11
As soon as we heard the news, 7 million American Muslims wondered in terror, “Will America blame me?”
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The Firefighters of 9/11
About 200 firefighters were part of a “blitz attack” response on Sept. 11, 2001. But it was already too late
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