Why America needs an optimistic and responsible, not utopian, Silicon Valley
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How the home of big tech lost its way
By Joel Kotkin
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As much trash as I’ve talked about this city, this state, it’s the closest thing to home I’ve had
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Thanks to Don, Ron doesn’t have a clear shot next year
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Fentanyl has changed everything — except the policies we use to fight it
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The project’s signal achievement was to light untold quantities of money on fire
By Matt Purple
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The Keystone State’s defining divide: Sheetz vs Wawa
By Teresa Mull
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With Flow, he is once again trying to change the way we live and work
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Our biggest threat isn’t Russia or China, but our own elite
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Woke’s belief in universal principles of justice is highly colored, often extremely self-interested and sometimes morally reprehensible
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What the realigners got wrong
By Ben Domenech
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Our brave comedians spend much of their time fearlessly attacking politicians. So did the comic playwright Aristophanes
By Peter Jones
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Elite schools have embraced the Red Bull model
By Will Collins
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She insists when we speak, ‘it was never about money’
By Kara Kennedy
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Books + Arts
King: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of the black civil rights hero to appear in more than thirty years
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In Romantic Comedy, we get her insight into a new phenomenon — celebrity of the modern age
By Harry Mount
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The author guides us through a military operation gone horribly awry
By James Snell
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The first revival of Dancin’ on Broadway is a treasure trove for Fosse fanatics
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Storm Swimmer is a collection both haunted and nurtured by waters
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If Alice Winn’s material is familiar, she handles it with skill and panache
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In order to take over the globe, he had to succeed in the largest English-language market
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Beneath the Big Apple’s streets, the MTA has amassed the largest collection of public art in the world
By Adrian Brune
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They are not talked about, reflected upon or even alluded to
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Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd could have been better
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Something happens when you watch a movie alone together, laughing, crying and fidgeting in unison
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Life
Money managers invest one’s wealth — and I happen to have the best there is
By Taki
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After a while I forgot what the bounds of normal behavior were
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I have a new woman in my life and not just any woman. I have a Woke Woman
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Few in our history have ever switched teams with the dramatic flair of Karl Hess
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No one reads Waugh, Stendhal or Faulkner anymore, not to mention Hemingway
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Place
Après-Covid caution means Thailand is hassle-free
By Sean Thomas
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Food and Drink
Iranian-born, Atlanta-based restaurateur Forough Vakili embodies the American dream
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I’ve always been intrigued by this genre of dessert recipe, which involves a vast spectrum of quality
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Establishments where writers and reporters liked to drink hold for me a privileged position
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This dish possesses unpretentious authenticity
By Jane Stannus
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Cooking is craft, not art, and food porn disorders our senses
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The Loire is home to a handful of varietals, from Melon de Bourgogne, the grape of Muscadet, to Sauvignon Blanc in Sancerre
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And Finally
The Bridgerton school of corsetry has more in common with Kardashian-era Spanx than with the early nineteenth century
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‘Slather’ has been used for less than a century to mean ‘spread or splash liberally on’
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