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Biden Is Trying to Jolt Us Out of Learned Helplessness About Trump
After Joe Biden’s speech on Friday marking the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection and laying out the democratic stakes…
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$3 Million Homes in California
A Victorian rowhouse in San Francisco, a 1966 ranch house in Malibu and a three-bedroom home in Menlo Park.
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Arts
A Novel of the Spanish Conquest, Magic Mushrooms Included
Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires” is a hallucinatory tale of the conquistadors’ arrival at Moctezuma’s gates.
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Style
How a Millennial Estée Lauder Built a Widely Popular Beauty Brand
Karissa Bodnar played on her customers’ desire to belong to something bigger than … well, beauty.
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Joan Acocella, Dance Critic for The New Yorker, Dies at 78
She wrote about the leading figures in ballet and modern dance for more than 40 years. One of her books…
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I Finally Figured Out Who ChatGPT Reminds Me Of
As the mother of an 8-year-old, and as someone who’s spent the past year experimenting with generative A.I., I’ve thought…
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This Election Year Is Unlike Any Other
At the outset of this election year, with Donald Trump leading the race to be the Republican presidential nominee, Americans…
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World
House Republicans to Broaden Higher Education Inquiry Beyond Antisemitism
Emboldened by the resignations of two prominent university presidents, House Republicans are planning an aggressive inquiry into academia, long one…
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World
Christian Oliver, ‘Speed Racer’ Actor, Dies in Plane Crash
Mr. Oliver’s two young daughters and a pilot were also killed in the crash, the police in the Caribbean nation…
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A Homeless Man Sleeps in the Lobby of My Apartment Building. What Should I Do?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to be empathetic while also respecting one’s own boundaries.