THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 4.19.26 Issue features Susan Dominus on the hair-loss drug finasteride; Farnaz Fassihi on a diary of the war from two opposing sides of the political divide; Anna Peele on the TV show “Love on the Spectrum; and more.

The Hair-Loss Drug Rewriting the Rules of Masculinity

A pill to cure baldness is changing the way men age — and how they see themselves.

Violence Shaped Charlize Theron. It Doesn’t Define Her.

The Oscar-winning actress on pain, healing and becoming an action hero. By Lulu Garcia-Navarro

What We Lose When Everything Is ‘-Coded’

On the social internet, our fascination with analyzing the hidden messages in our culture has been flattened into one word. By Dan Brooks

We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem.

For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain.