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What Democrats Should Do if They Somehow Win in November
Republicans are still favored to gain seats in the midterm elections, but not as favored as you might have thought.…
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Let’s Stop Paying for Wildlife Conservation Through Gun Sales
Regardless of whether they hunt, gun buyers have long underwritten efforts to conserve and restore American landscapes for hunting with…
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The Pernicious Myth of Maternal Instinct
Around the time that Mimi Niles became a mother, an upstairs neighbor in her New York City apartment building had…
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Foreign Films, English Titles and the Dilemma Distributors Face
Two years ago, international film releases in the United States reached a new pinnacle with the crowning of Bong Joon…
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Review: A Faithful ‘Kinky Boots,’ With All Its Pizazz and Pitfalls
You can’t keep a drag queen down, at least not for long. It was only April 2019 that the Cyndi…
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Christie’s to Sell Paul G. Allen’s $1 Billion Art Collection
In the art world’s latest eye-popping development, Christie’s auction house announced on Thursday that it would sell the impressive art…
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Student Debt Relief Versus the Scaremongers
On Wednesday, President Biden announced a plan to reduce most students’ debt by $10,000, with lower-income students eligible for twice…
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Why Your Social Life Is Not What It Should Be
One day Nicholas Epley was commuting by train to his office at the University of Chicago. As a behavioral scientist…
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The Creep of History
Last week, the historian James Sweet found himself in the middle of one of the confusing messes that pop up…
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Howard Rosenthal, Who Quantified Partisanship in Congress, Dies at 83
Prof. Howard Rosenthal, a political scientist whose pioneering research confirmed quantitatively that Congress is more politically polarized than ...