11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

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Welcome to the weekend. The impeachment inquiry. The wildfires in California. A quantum breakthrough by Google. I guess there’s no such thing as a slow news week anymore. Here are some great stories I’m sure you meant to read, so take some time and do it!

The basements of Queens are the open secret of a literal underground economy, driven by a steady influx of immigrants and the need for affordable housing.

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That campaigns are now being fought largely online is hardly a revelation, yet only one political party seems to have gotten the message.

[Also read: “The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It.”]

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A rare inside look by New York Times journalists exposes an enormous legal and humanitarian crisis, one that the world has largely chosen to ignore.

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“The Irishman” is officially only the third time they’ve collaborated, but over the years they often turned to each other. Who else could understand?

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The actress is trying to stay just famous enough to still get invited to Washington.

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What in the World is going on in London? We sent a cartoonist to find out.

[Also read: “Boris Johnson Loses a Critical Brexit Vote, Throwing the Process Into Disarray,” “Boris Johnson Calls for December Election in Push to Break Brexit Deadlock” and “In Northern Ireland, Brexit Deal Is Seen as ‘Betrayal’”]

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The new generation of veggie burgers aims to replace the beefy original with fake meat or fresher vegetables. To find out how well they do, we ran a blind tasting of six top contenders.

[Also read: “Is the New Meat Any Better Than the Old Meat?”]

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The retailer’s bankruptcy filing, and interviews with former employees, give a rare glimpse into a family controlled, intensely secretive operation.

[Also read: “One of the great family businesses faces the start-up age.”]

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A Rothschild estate in Shandong Province has released its first vintage. It was 10 years in the making.

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In a new memoir, the bassist describes how he expanded his consciousness, found his muse and landed in a storied rock band.

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In and around Stockholm, the secretive painter — whose bold abstract works predated Kandinsky’s — lived a life of spiritual yearning that shaped her artistic career.

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