Things feel different down there: more exciting, more open-minded, more American
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Cameras clicking and lights flashing everywhere. This way, that way, over here!
By Paul Cook
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Hunting for evidence of Republican authoritarianism in the Magic Kingdom
By Matt Purple
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Some hope the boom continues but others are less pleased
By Alex Perez
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The state has a very lean government — that’s no accident
By Sal Nuzzo
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The forces of cancellation require confrontation
By Ben Domenech
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America’s vaccine initiative was more than a miracle
By Paul Mango
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It’s all white noise and shushing and singing and rocking
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She needs even her mixed-legacy departure to somehow be a feminist act
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The city’s very real progress is being squandered as crime spreads
By Ed Zotti
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The left thinks it was too white while the Catholic New Right sees much to admire
By David Marcus
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Sometime this century, or early in the next, women will no longer have to give birth
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Family dinners, like almost every area of American life, have become fiercely politicized
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The Syracusia was constructed out of enough material to build sixty triremes
By Peter Jones
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Our hot-vax summer do-over is here, and I’m going to stop ignoring the items on my to-do list
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It’s not a good idea to make anti-anything the center of your identity
By Jesse Singal
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Might the uptick in club openings tell us something profound?
By Josie Cox
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Books + Arts
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick reviewed
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A new book remembers all the excitement and absurdity
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Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing by Max Holleran reviewed
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The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt reviewed
By Maria Albano
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Why are we so content to minimize and forget the work of translators?
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The Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse
By Eric Gibson
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Paul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago
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Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
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A Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022
By Tom Meek
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Daniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours
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Life
What does worry me is globalization, a sleight of hand by haves to have more, while small-town rubes get less
By Taki
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Susceptible people confuse his miraculous prose with their own lived experience
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On the Abbeys and the Beats
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Is the historical American culture being diluted, weakened and transformed by multiculturalism?
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Place
A weekend in Kentucky’s distinctly working-class Jackson Purchase
By Amber Athey and Jonathan Duke
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Food and Drink
The art of making your own ice cream
By Jane Stannus
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Our priority is therapeutic: to be comfortable and feel welcome
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The six wines that I recently had an opportunity to taste ranged from fetching to fantastic
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And Finally
A Texas neighborhood is overtaken by invasive strains of twee
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We never used to use the term in speech
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