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How ‘The Bear’ Captures the Panic of Modern Work
The Original Beef of Chicagoland is the fitting name of the restaurant at the heart of the acclaimed FX series…
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Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington
A few years ago, Zachary Woolfe, a New York Times critic and editor, posed a question: What are the five…
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Jennette McCurdy Is Ready to Move Forward, and to Look Back
When Jennette McCurdy was 16, she was in her third year on “iCarly,” the hit teen sitcom on Nickelodeon. Millions…
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Footprints Discovery Suggests Ancient ‘Ghost Tracks’ May Cover the West
Scientists have discovered ancient human footprints in Utah, traces, they say, of adults and children who walked barefoot along a…
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Trump Has Big Plans for 2025
As he contemplates a third straight run for the presidency, Donald Trump has a multimillion-dollar political machine and a network…
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The Bad Faith of the New Religious Right
Produced by ‘The Argument’ The sweeping rise of Christian nationalism on the right has taken extreme forms since the election…
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This Is How the U.S. Will Stand With Taiwan
Vladimir Putin’s brutal attack on his Ukrainian neighbors has sparked global outrage — and forged unprecedented unity — among the…
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American Democracy Is Not the Beacon It Once Was for Africa’s Elite
NAIROBI — A Kenyan friend of mine who graduated from Harvard Business School recently told me that the United States…
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The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters
Blake Masters’s first campaign ad opens with a shot of the Sonoran Desert. A plaintive piano theme tinkles as Mr.…
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Are Participles a Thing of the Past?
I want to follow up on the topic of language evolution that I took up in my previous newsletter about…