11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

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Welcome to the weekend. After a week of history-making impeachment inquiry news, you might want to take a break. Maybe you could and start prepping your Thanksgiving menu. After all, we are a little less than two weeks away. Alison Roman is here to help. If you just can’t get enough of politics, we’ve got some of that for you. Or maybe you just need a pick-me-up; we’ve got that too in an interview with Tom Hanks.

President Trump fixated on Ukraine as a solution to his political problems. In five months, his obsession upended American foreign policy and threatened his presidency. Here is how it happened.

[Also read: “What Joe Biden Actually Did in Ukraine”]

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SoftBank poured money into start-ups that use armies of contractors. That has upended the lives of drivers, hotel operators and real estate agents around the world.

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Hanks is playing Mister Rogers in a new movie and is just as nice as you think he is. Please read this article anyway.

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We spent three days in Alison Roman’s kitchen as she cooked, hosted and served some controversial opinions about the classic holiday meal.

[Also read: “Our Best Vegan Thanksgiving Recipes”]

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Yoga students and studios are grappling with inappropriate, manipulative and exploitative teachers and teachings.

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In the late 1800s, women explorers sailed the Nile, sending back vivid accounts of Egypt’s riches. A 21st-century writer travels in their wake.

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In the scintillating third season of the Netflix drama, Olivia Colman becomes Elizabeth.

[Also read: “With ‘The Crown,’ a ‘Secret Weapon’ Could Become Not So Secret”]

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The role-playing game has made a surprising return to mainstream culture.

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A co-chief film critic of The New York Times debates himself on the subject.

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Mushrooms are one of the world’s greatest reminders that “in nature,” as Rachel Carson once wrote, “nothing exists alone.”