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‘I Want to Leave With My Dignity’: One Woman’s Self-Deportation Story 

Yessenia Ruano fled El Salvador 14 years ago for asylum in the United States. This summer, after threats of deportation, she packs up her family and says goodbye to her home

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Steve Lacy Is One of Modern Pop’s Most Unique Talents. Just Don’t Make a Big Deal About It

He’s a wildly gifted musician and style icon with several streaming-era classics under his belt. Up next: His most personal album yet

The Best Albums of 2025 So Far

From pop superstars to up-and-coming innovators, from hip-hop poets to folk storytellers to party monsters

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Why Ava Max Disappeared: ‘I Almost Lost Myself’

After vanishing from social media, finding new management, and navigating heartbreak and betrayal, the electropop diva returns with Don’t Click Play

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Inside the Battle Over ‘Napalm Girl’

What we have long accepted about one of the most galvanizing war photographs of all time may not be true. Can history be rewritten?

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This Burger Is Brought to You by Immigrants

Mass deportations from the Trump administration are set to decimate the food system, which is powered each step of the way by migrants

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