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At the University of Chicago: Was It Free Speech, or Harassment?
Readers react to a conservative student’s attempts to shut down a course called “The Problem of Whiteness.”
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World
In Brazil, Beauty Is a Right. Are They On To Something?
Every person with a toddler knows that her child is in constant imminent peril. Trying to prevent the next near-death or disfiguring accident is a parent’s unending occupation. I was doing my best as I stood on one end of a shower in our hotel in Rio ...
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World
We Can’t Just Shoot Our Way Out of This
Our topic today is gun regulation. Come on, stop beating your head against the backyard grill. That thing’s hot. Americans are really in need of some good news. This time of year, we have to live with a deluge of terrible stories about mass shootings ...
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Magazine
Therapy Where the Clothes Come Off (Sometimes)
By combining talk therapy with elements of physical touch, surrogate partners assist people who are struggling with sex and intimacy.
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Arts
In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive
It’s hard to overstate how central Milan Kundera was, in the mid-1980s, to literary culture in America and elsewhere. He was the best-known Czech writer since Kafka, and his fiction brought news of sophisticated Eastern European societies trembling ...
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World
If Biden Wanted to Ease U.S.-China Tensions, Would Americans Let Him?
In polls, Americans’ views of China are starting to resemble their views of the Soviet Union decades ago. That could make it harder to mend ties.
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World
What to Know About ChatGPT’s New Code Interpreter Feature
Graphs, maps and data analyses? Now ChatGPT can do even more.
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Business
U.S. and E.U. Finalize Long-Awaited Deal on Sharing Data
A deal to ensure that data from Meta, Google and scores of other tech companies can continue flowing between the United States and European Union was finalized on Monday, after the digital transfer of personal information between the two ...
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World
Why China’s Young People Are Not Getting Married
Marriages in China are at a record low. Recent political and economic turmoil have added another reason to postpone tying the knot.
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World
Why We Shouldn’t Lose Faith in Organized Religion
Eboo Patel wants to tell a better story about religion in America. Patel, an American Muslim and founder and president of Interfaith America, a Chicago-based nonprofit that aims to promote cooperation across religious differences, served on President ...