CULTURE
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When Do We Become Adults, Really?
Life stages became more standardized in the late nineteenth century, as mandatory schooling spread, and legal thresholds of adulthood were…
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“Something Familiar,” by Mary Gaitskill
She didn’t remember what she’d said, only that it had gone on for the whole hour, and that he’d said,…
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Zohran Mamdani, the Everywhere Mayor
I thought of Boorstin on a Thursday afternoon early this month, as City Hall reporters trooped into the Blue Room,…
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Presidents’ Days: From Obama to Trump
Obama had started out, like so many, thinking that Trump was little more than a comical, if malevolent, real-estate hawker.…
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 13th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link
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The Movie That Shaped the Former Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino
For all the scenes of jeeps raising dust in the desert and migrants wading through the Rio Grande, “The Border”…
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The Rise of the Anti-ICE Protest Song
He is also sitting in front of a screen. “Am I the only one willin’ to bleed / Or take…
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Animals Say Hello, but Do They Say Goodbye?
After I started writing this piece, I became hyperaware of the goodbyes in my life. Visiting a restaurant in Brooklyn…
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Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long Game
Next, he brought out a stack of canary-yellow index cards, thick as a sandwich. It was covered in his scrawl.…
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America!: Mamdani Goggles and Other Products to Maximize a Brief Surge in Idealism
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