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More than a decade before my dad died, I lost him to dementia.
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Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.
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A conversation with Vivian Salama about who stands to gain if America overhauls the island’s leadership
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More and more women of color are joining the 136-year-old organization.
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Lily Allen’s West End Girl tour isn’t a live concert so much as epic theater.
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After Pam Bondi’s ouster, other top administration officials could be in jeopardy.
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How close are we really to self-improving AI?
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She did what Donald Trump wanted her to do. That turned out to be part of the problem.
The Family That Decided to Have Their Stomachs Removed
Māori families with a mutation for aggressive gastric cancer have had their stomachs preemptively removed. How do you live without one?
What It’s Like to Visit an Existential Therapist
It’s not meant to be comforting, but somehow it is. (From 2019)
Sarah Wilkins Americans Need to Party More
We’re not doing it as much as we used to. You can be the change we need. (From 2025)
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“What has the ‘innocent rodent,’ as George Eliot would say, ‘with its small nibbling pleasures,’ to do with the great festival of the Resurrection?” (From 1890)
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Space scientists won’t say so, but the results of three brilliantly conceived experiments lead inevitably to one startling conclusion: Life, in some form, exists on Mars. (From 1977)
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Graeme Wood on what he saw at the Strait of Hormuz and the lockdown of oil in the Persian Gulf. Plus: Trump’s war-information blackout and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense at 250 years old.
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There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
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Younger generations are having a hard time imagining their future.
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