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What’s Driving Former Progressives to the Right?
In a new essay in the progressive magazine In These Times, the writers Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet grapple with…
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Politics
The Real Reason Ron DeSantis’s Campaign Is Rotting
Over the past two weeks, I’ve been awash in condolences. Friends tell me how deeply sorry for me they feel.…
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Magazine
The Trans Comic Looking for Love ‘at the End of the World’
Jes Tom used to be obsessed with finding “the one” to ride out the end times with. Now, the comic…
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Politics
The Truth in ‘American Fiction’
In my nearly three decades as an editor, author and former editor of The New York Times Book Review, a…
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Food
‘American Fiction’ Review: The Pen Is Mighty, the Pressures Mightier
The first film from the director Cord Jefferson stars Jeffrey Wright as an author who becomes a pseudonymous success writing…
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US
So Far, No Major Fallout for M.I.T. President After Contentious Testimony
Dr. Sally Kornbluth, who is new to M.I.T., did not draw nearly as much fire as her counterparts at Harvard…
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Politics
Behind the Birth of an Anti-Vaccine Story
Before he received his second shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, there was little reason to think that George Watts Jr.…
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Magazine
Is the Way Men Talk About Fashion About to Undergo Another Sea Change?
How two “grown dirtbags” are reshaping men’s wear.
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Politics
Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests
A.I. tools like ChatGPT did not boost the frequency of cheating in high schools, Stanford researchers say.
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Politics
Chatbot Hype or Harm? Teens Push to Broaden A.I. Literacy
It was difficult late last year for many teenagers to know what to make of the new wave of A.I.…