There’s a significant reason why DC workers don’t want to go downtown: crime
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The founders of sociology — I think especially of Max Weber — would have been fascinated by Israeli society
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The Biden administration and its surrogates are desperately trying to derail Trump’s candidacy by subjecting him to wholesale political prosecution
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While Republicans have used the spike in violent crime to point out problems with efforts to neuter police, this is far from a partisan issue
By Tim Rice
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‘This is the best relationship I’ve ever seen between city hall, city council, the mayor and the police department’
By Patrick Hauf
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The longer I’m here, the more I love it
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Artificial intelligence will help tech giants get even bigger. What will it mean for their human employees?
By Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky
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Why didn’t the tech geniuses at Google foresee these unintended consequences?
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American credibility is said to be at stake in Ukraine. This is tragically true
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The greatest threat to its survival will come from within
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It’s been a boon for conservation
By Geoff Hill
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The possibility that BRICS may become a serious competitor to Western-led international entities should be a wake-up call to Western leaders
By Henry Olsen
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Polls say trust in media is at an all-time low. But a better reflection than that can be found in what’s happening in the journalism business
By Ben Domenech
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What the Biden administration’s policies gloss over is a fundamental economic truth: debt cancellation isn’t an erasure but a transfer
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His exploit gained him the prestige he longed for, and in 424 BC he was made a general
By Peter Jones
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The travel scolds want us to feel guilty about venturing far from home when in fact, exploration is still life’s greatest university
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Books + Arts
Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea suggest a response to the new isolationism that is essential for understanding contemporary foreign policy debates on the right
By Ben Domenech
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Steve Coll’s title alludes to Homer, and his subject matter has the arc of Greek tragedy
By Clement Knox
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Even if jazz has developed stylistically in ways the jazz saxophonist might not have foreseen, its founding attitudes are enduring
By Philip Clark
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Paul Alexander is on a mission to correct what he sees as misrepresentations of the singer’s life and personality
By Alison Kerr
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The gender theorist’s first mainstream publication is unconvincing
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It is unlikely that either Sexy Beast or The Gentlemen will have their legacies seriously challenged by the television series based on them
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If the Thomas Pynchon novel adaptation has anything to say about the American dream, it is to mock its high-falutin’ nature
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Why are we still so fascinated with the grunge icon?
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Director Maria Friedman has harnessed revelatory performances from her three leads to create a theatrical masterpiece
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The rebuilt and revitalized Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris is nearly complete. Will it appease the traditionalists?
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Life
What will the sport’s comeback mean for the PGA-LIV merger?
By Kevin Cook
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My swollen chest looked like a 1981 Playboy centerfold caricature
By Birdie Hall
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This little helpless creature had given existential meaning to my life. I owed it
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Mine are for things undone, unmade, untold. They’re hardly earth-shattering, but still…
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While this cycle of resentment, revenge and reaction is nothing new under the sun, its ubiquity seems historically unprecedented
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Place
The hardy Québécois have found ways to keep the bleakness at bay
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The pests are lucrative, at least for the hunting business
By Teresa Mull
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Food and Drink
There’s always a friendly smile and a big hello from behind the bar
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During the banquet, a loquacious local vigneron told me that he has had sangliers rush by him at dawn while he’s working in his vineyards
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The twenty-eight-year-old food influencer somehow makes being a gluten-free vegan who doesn’t drink look fun
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What a marvelous thing the city has given the world
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Just as night watchmen are constrained by duty to make their rounds, so are writers about wine
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And Finally
What St. Helena coffee has above all is the power of suggestion
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The White House promised a ‘very consequential response’
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