CULTURE
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The Mother as Antihero | The New Yorker
Sasha Bonét’s matrilineal memoir, “The Waterbearers,” traces the lives of her mother and grandmother: powerful, complicated women whose personalities have…
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Donald Trump’s Firing of a Federal Prosecutor Crosses the Reddest of Lines
“I want him out,” President Donald Trump declared on Friday, referring to Erik Siebert, the career prosecutor he had tapped…
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“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” Is None of Those Things
If movies were given scores as figure skaters are, fantasy would start with a high rating for technical difficulty. The…
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Where Political Violence Comes From
This past week, the right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Kirk, a close ally of…
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Does Society Have Too Many Rules?
I live in a three-generation household. My wife and I, our son and daughter, and my in-laws share a single…
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Harvard’s Mixed Victory | The New Yorker
Last time U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs sided with Harvard in a case about the university’s alleged discrimination, it ended…
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Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced
As I watch the Trump White House and its orbiting debris field of oddballs and charlatans, a single long-ago movie…
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Restaurant Review: Lex Yard at the Waldorf-Astoria
Waldorf has brought in Michael Anthony, the longtime executive chef of Gramercy Tavern (where he remains), to create the menu.…
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A Letter from Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime confidante of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, told a top administration official she never saw President…
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