CULTURE
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Donald Trump and the Iran Crisis
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” Whether or not Mark Twain ever really said that line, it fits and…
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The Trump Crackdown on Elected Officials
Last Thursday afternoon, the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, stood smiling in a hallway of the Capitol as he deflected reporters’…
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Molly Fischer on Mark Singer’s “Mom Overboard!”
There are plenty of old magazine stories I love, but I also love old magazines themselves. They’re time capsules, perfectly…
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Grocery Shopping with My Dead Dad
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“The Terminal,” by Rick Barot
“They stand next to him, in a posture of awkward confession, carefully giving him the words.” Source link
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Why Ehud Olmert Thinks His Country Is Committing War Crimes
Last week, Ehud Olmert, a former Prime Minister of Israel, publicly denounced his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the war Netanyahu…
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The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard
Around midnight on April 16, 2025, after Chen Zimo learned that the Department of Homeland Security had threatened to revoke…
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How to Think About COVID-19 Vaccines in the Era of R.F.K., Jr.
On Tuesday, in a fifty-eight-second video posted on X, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services,…
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Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
The internet—it seemed like such a good idea at the time. Under conditions of informational poverty, our ancestors had no…
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A Tumultuous Spring Semester Finally Comes to a Close
On a morning in May, Mordecai Johnson, the president of Howard University, testified before a congressional subcommittee about the prevalence…
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