The rest of the world is playing with a different rulebook
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‘The media presence at CPAC showed where the future of broadcasting lies’
By Liz Truss
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The deep, the unavoidable, question is where this train of insanity ends
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Our self-styled betters have neither raised us up toward a more perfect meritocracy nor led us triumphantly into a classless paradise
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The danger of the app’s mind-altering effects is far more immediate than those of nicotine, drugs and alcohol
By Ben Domenech
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We used to name the stars after Greek gods. Now we shoot nudes and dead boomers into the great unknown
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Any time I want to, I can unroll my mat and deploy time-honored methods to slow down my breathing, calm my mind
By Neal Pollack
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We’re all being victimized by denial, wishful thinking, dogmatism rather than idealism and rank incompetence
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His extremism is likely to push Biden over the finish line
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The country is a test case for the survival of nationalism everywhere
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In a country with real conflict, no one has time for culture wars
By Josh Kaplan
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There are prominent liberal hawks who have somehow escaped condemnation for helping promote the invasion
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The country is one of America’s staunchest allies in the war on terror and the world’s most enslaved nation
By Geoff Hill
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The National Rally president is talked about as the future of the French right
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What is it about this beer that’s made it stand the test of time?
By Teresa Mull
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Until a competitor amasses the platform’s kind of clout, the wannabe censors will be stuck hearing opinions for which they once tried to get people banned
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Books + Arts
Daniel de Visé’s entertaining — if that is the right word — canter through Belushi and Aykroyd’s lives and times covers a fair number of bases
By D.J. Taylor
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Josie Cox has persuasively documented the steady but halting progress that women have made in the workplace
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He might be the greatest American novelist you’ve never heard of
By Oliver Soden
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The celebrated American photojournalist and filmmaker is little known around the world
By Paul Levy
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Until August has a curiously half-baked feel, as if it’s a souvenir of a great man’s legacy rather than a work in itself
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Alexander Larman’s Power and Glory is a tale of survival
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New York is great in summer, but the art scene can sometimes be fleeting
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The language itself — and the on-the-nose themes that Amy Herzog has unsubtly emphasized — feel like they could be sourced directly from Twitter/X
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The storied auction house is making a major change to its fee structure. What will it mean for the art world’s future?
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Life
It’s depressing this entire country finds it acceptable to part ways on a chipper note of menace
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Ours is an age that prefers the battle of ideas and opinions rather than pleasure of discovering the mysteries of another person
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That’s all he played, one single game, and it took him almost a century to get credit for it
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Overhead the Milky Way was beginning to show, faintly emergent from the celestial depths, the existential wastes of eternity
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Place
A foundation set up by my grandfather is trying to reintroduce the greater one-horned rhinoceros to its ancient heartland
By Orson Fry
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Après skiing in Japan, nothing else will really compare
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Food and Drink
The wine and spritzes flow all day in Venice’s bàcari — traditional, low-key taverns — while bitesize, freshly — made cicchetti provide sustenance
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I have never stopped by without trying the wildest combinations in an effort to create a challenge
By Ben Domenech
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It is beginning to cross over from fable into the realm of scientific fact
By Hannah Moore
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And Finally
When a product claims to cure diabetes, cut your belly fat, clear your skin and minimize or prevent cancer, I get a little suspicious
By Zak Asgard
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I am quite retro. I like looking at the past. My husband is almost entirely so. He lives in it
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