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Miranda July Is Ready to Get ‘Maximum Weird’
It was not exactly urgent to get the rug, but the larger question the rug had to answer was urgent…
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News
The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t Know
Six days after winning election to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did what so many young progressives do while visiting the nation’s…
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Arts
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…
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News
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…
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World
In a Portland Library, Activists Fortify for a Standoff
At Portland State University’s crescent-shaped library, students can normally peer through floor-to-ceiling windows at the leafy green spaces below. But…
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Style
Why Are Movies so Bad at Making Civil War Look Scary?
The filmmaker has made it clear that “Civil War” is a warning. Instead, the ugliness of war comes across as…
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News
Trump Is Flirting With Quack Economics
More than 30 years ago, the economists Rudiger Dornbusch (one of my mentors) and Sebastian Edwards wrote a classic paper…
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News
What Students Read Before They Protest
When I was a college undergraduate 25 years ago, the fancy school that I attended offered what it styled as…
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News
You’ve Been Wronged. That Doesn’t Make You Right.
We are living in a golden age of aggrievement. No matter who you are or what your politics, whatever your…
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News
Give Me Liberty or Give Me … What?
If the American experiment finally decides to call it quits, how might a national breakup begin? Perhaps California moves toward…