What if everything we know about Sacagawea is wrong?
A growing body of evidence may entirely change the story of America’s most iconic Native forebear.
The New York Times Magazine
July 27, 2025

This week, Christopher Cox explores the growing body of evidence that Sacagawea survived into old age, Jean Garnett writes about the heterofatalism phenomenon, Erika Hayasaki tells a story about what a real friendship with a chatbot might look like and Ferris Jabr explains the effort to create manmade clouds to save the Great Barrier Reef from climate change.

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What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?

A growing body of evidence suggests she might have survived into old age — which would entirely change the story of America’s most iconic Native forebear.

By Christopher Cox

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Illustration by Kristina Tzekova

The Trouble With Wanting Men

Women are so fed up with dating men that the phenomenon even has a name: heterofatalism. So what do we do with our desire?

By Jean Garnett

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What Would a Real Friendship With A.I. Look Like? Maybe Like Hers.

Chatbots can get scary if you suspend your disbelief. But MJ Cocking didn’t — and wound up in a relationship that was strangely, helpfully real.

By Erika Hayasaki

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The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef

Inside a bold — and controversial — effort to cool the water around this beloved ecosystem.

By Ferris Jabr

On the cover this week: Patrick Kingsley, Ronen Bergman and Natan Odenheimer on how Benjamin Netanyahu prolonged the war in Gaza to stay in power.

Photograph by Ziv Koren/Polaris, for The New York Times

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