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Is Green Growth Possible?
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ A decade ago, I was feeling pretty pessimistic about climate change. The politics of mitigating global warming just seemed impossible: asking people to make sacrifices, or countries to slow their development, and ...
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My Late-in-Life Friendship With Helen Vendler
One makes so few new friends in older age — I mean, real friends, the ones you bond with and hold dear, as if you’d known one another since childhood. Old age often prevents, or at least tempers, such discoveries. The joy of suddenly finding someone ...
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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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Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable
When I was in college, I came across “The Sea and Poison,” a 1950s novel by Shusaku Endo. It tells the story of a doctor in postwar Japan who, as an intern years earlier, participated in a vivisection experiment on an American prisoner. Endo’s lens ...
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Left and Right on the Happiness Scale
Readers largely take issue with a column by Ross Douthat about the left’s supposed unhappiness.
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Real Estate
Rebuilding After a Fire. Are Things Really Just Things?
A writer reflects on what it means to lose nearly everything in a disaster, as she moves into a new home.
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Arts
Letter by Letter, Steve Gleason Typed His Memoir With His Eyes
Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). I have always loved to read, and I read nearly anywhere. Journalists used to get a kick out of the fact that in the midst of the chaotic joy of the [New Orleans] Saints locker room, I ...
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New Yorkers vs. Cockroaches: ‘It’s Them or Me.’
OpinionSupported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENTNew Yorkers vs. Cockroaches: ‘It’s Them or Me.’ April 23, 2024, 5:00 a.m. ETShare full article5By Claudia Weill and Eli Noyes Ms. Weill is an Oscar-nominated director. Mr. Noyes was an animator and Oscar ...
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An Octopus Took My Camera, and the Images Changed the Way I See the World
I was gifted with a new way of seeing the day I got mugged underwater. I had been filming creatures living in the Great African Sea Forest off the coast of South Africa about a year ago when my camera was grabbed straight out of my hands by a young ...
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Liz Cheney: The Supreme Court Should Rule Swiftly on Trump’s Immunity Claim
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Donald Trump’s arguments that he is immune from prosecution for his efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election. It is likely that all — or nearly all — of the justices agree that a former president ...