CULTURE
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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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Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber Star in a Pair of Psychosexual Slugfests
“The new wine has burst the old bottles,” the playwright August Strindberg wrote, in a bullish preface to his 1888…
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“Last Exit,” by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
“Yesterday bleeds in the rearview mirror / As tomorrow’s fires fan out everywhere.” Source link
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The Real Audience for Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Spectacles
Last May, the United Kingdom’s Home Office posted footage that showed immigration officers going door to door and marching migrants…
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How an Election Denier Became the U.S. Treasurer
In Georgia, during the early days of the pandemic, a bald and baggy-eyed Republican state senator named Brandon Beach showed…
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Can Head Start Survive the MAGA Era?
In early April, Head Start child-care centers began receiving an e-mail from the address defendthespend@hhs.gov. The message explained that, before…
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How Russia and Ukraine Are Playing Trump’s Blame Game
On May 9th, Vladimir Putin will oversee a parade in Moscow’s Red Square, commemorating the Soviet Union’s victory in the…
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Michael Schulman on Lillian Ross’s “The Shit-Kickers of Madison Avenue”
Lord knows what the gaggle of tenth graders chewing French fries and puffing Marlboro Lights made of the small septuagenarian…
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