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Clutter Is Good for You
Several years before she died, my mother began sending me things — ostensibly significant objects. These included expected items like…
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The Sad Tales of George Santos
What would it be like to be so ashamed of your life that you felt compelled to invent a new…
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The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs
Two weeks ago, the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey passionately advocated in a blog post the view that neither Twitter nor…
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Opinion
This 2022 ‘Best of’ List Includes Swaddling a Chicken
For my last newsletter of 2022, I want to highlight parenting media that I loved this year. I tend toward…
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Use Your Disillusion: A Philosopher Makes the Case
“In Praise of Failure,” by Costica Bradatan, examines a handful of thinkers who rejected worldly success in favor of struggle.
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The Language We Use to Talk About Domestic Violence Isn’t Enough
On a cold October morning, Colin Canham and his wife, Sara Emerick, were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Mr.…
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Is the Inflation Storm Letting Up?
The average national price of regular gasoline this Christmas was almost 20 cents a gallon lower than it was a…
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Joe Lieberman to Kyrsten Sinema: Come on In, the Water’s Warm
Few others know quite what it’s like to infuriate the Democratic Party by leaving it.
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The ‘Black Panther’ Sequel That Never Was
Writer-director Ryan Coogler and co-screenwriter Joe Robert Cole reveal the original plot for “Wakanda Forever” and discuss working in the…
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Opinion
China’s Future Isn’t What It Used to Be
The world’s two most-powerful leaders have just had very different years. At the beginning of 2022, Joe Biden was widely…