CULTURE
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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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The Endless August Recess | The New Yorker
In the dog days of August in Washington, D.C., with Congress off on its district-work period, the House still convenes…
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The Retribution Phase of Trump’s Presidency Has Begun
It’s not like he was hiding the plan. When Donald Trump campaigned for a return to the White House in…
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 19th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link
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Always Inadequate | The New Yorker
In the late nineteen-sixties I lived for a year, with my then husband, in the middle of an apple orchard…
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Dan-el Padilla Peralta on Learning How to Combat Loss
When the Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta was going up for a promotion to full professor, in early 2023, it…
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