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Robert Kagan Takes the Long View on Trumpism
Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). Midnight, at the kitchen table, with a bowl of cornflakes. How do you organize your books? Umm. I own about 6,000 books and it’s a bit of a disaster. I’ve been paying research ...
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Will Shoppers Ever Care About the Destruction of the Planet?
Tactics to convince people to buy less aren’t working. A quirky new documentary by Patagonia takes a different approach.
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The Biden Campaign’s High-Powered Effort to Define R.F.K. Jr.
Pretty much every presidential election includes a smattering of third-party and independent candidates — minor players who have slim to no chance of winning but who can seriously damage the electoral chances of the major-party nominees. This year ...
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Are Smartphones Driving Our Teens to Depression?
Here is a story. In 2007, Apple released the iPhone, initiating the smartphone revolution that would quickly transform the world. In 2010, it added a front-facing camera, helping shift the social-media landscape toward images, especially selfies ...
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Is It Wrong for Public School Principals to Send Their Kids to Private School?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on double standards — and possible hypocrisy — among educators.
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Some Concrete Reasons Not to Be Totally Panicked
Gail Collins: Bret, I have a feeling we’re going to be spending a good amount of time talking about the adventures of Donald Trump. Bret: By “adventures,” you mean “affairs.” Gail: But just to start with something we’re in disagreement about …. Joe ...
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Arts
When Your Mom Is Famous for Hating Motherhood
In Heidi Reimer’s debut novel, “The Mother Act,” a daughter grapples with being parented (or not) by an actress who happily mines her life for material.
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At Trump’s Trial, a Window Into the Golden Era of Tabloids
The testimony of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, included stories of celebrity encounters and his own wild journalistic tactics.
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Anne Hathaway Is Done Trying to Please
This is the debut of The Interview, The New York Times’s new weekly series, featuring in-depth conversations with fascinating people. Each week, David Marchese or Lulu Garcia-Navarro will speak with notable figures in the worlds of culture, politics ...
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Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is
Salman Rushdie In his new memoir, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” the renowned author reflects on surviving a brutal attack in 2022 — and living in the shadow of the fatwa ordered against him decades ago.[You can listen to this ...