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The Trump Administration Wanted Her Expertise, Just Not Her

The Trump Administration Wanted Her Expertise, Just Not Her

An interview with the transgender CIA analyst fired from Trump’s White House...

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The Poet Laureate of Pinterest

The Poet Laureate of Pinterest

In defense of Mary Oliver...

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NATO’s Nightmare

NATO’s Nightmare

The U.S. and Europe have no clear plan for a joint attack from Russia and China....

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Why Learn Something That a Machine Can Do for You?

Why Learn Something That a Machine Can Do for You?

Technology may shape how and what we learn, but the act of learning itself is deeply human....

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Trump Will Make South Korea Pay For His Iran Humiliation

Trump Will Make South Korea Pay For His Iran Humiliation

His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices....

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How Trump Left America Vulnerable to Cyberattacks

How Trump Left America Vulnerable to Cyberattacks

Experts worry that the water-system hacks may be a warm-up for attacks on the elections in November....

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A Win for Dark Money

A Win for Dark Money

Trump just raised the cost of doing honest business....

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The Truths That Failed Jason Arday

The Truths That Failed Jason Arday

Systemic, ritualized dishonesty undid the Cambridge professor....

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What the Last Weeks of Summer Can Offer

What the Last Weeks of Summer Can Offer

The early onslaught of pumpkin-spice products can make it easy to forget what’s so special about the season we’re in now...

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Iran’s Long Shadow

Iran’s Long Shadow

Panelists joined to discuss the political consequences of the continued conflict....

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Anthony Fauci’s Group Chat Is Making People Lose Their Minds

Anthony Fauci’s Group Chat Is Making People Lose Their Minds

Can the former NIAID director’s private text messages tell us anything we don’t already know?...

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Don’t Expect Russians to Protest the War

Don’t Expect Russians to Protest the War

Ukraine may have hoped that deeper drone attacks would cause Russians to rise up, but mass demonstrations don’t look lik...

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A Democrat in Name Only

A Democrat in Name Only

Rob Sand isn’t progressive or moderate. What is he trying to be?...

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Bumble Was Never Going to Fix Dating Anyway

Bumble Was Never Going to Fix Dating Anyway

For the first time, men can initiate contact on the app. It won’t make a difference....

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Eight Perfect Series Finales

Eight Perfect Series Finales

How a show ends determines how it’s remembered....

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Hollywood’s Most Indestructible Superhero

Hollywood’s Most Indestructible Superhero

Spider-Man has always found success, no matter how moviegoers feel about his cape-wearing peers....

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A Bleak, Violent Novel’s Unexpected Delights

A Bleak, Violent Novel’s Unexpected Delights

For the characters in The Disappearers, seeing and being seen are matters of life and death....

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Photos of the Week: Mudflat Trot, Waterfall Jump, Pole Vault

Photos of the Week: Mudflat Trot, Waterfall Jump, Pole Vault

A pig-squealing championship in France, the annual City2Surf fun run in Australia, a total solar eclipse over Spain, and...

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A Cold War Movie That Gives Too Much Credit to Ronald Reagan

A Cold War Movie That Gives Too Much Credit to Ronald Reagan

The Brink of War, a new film about the Reykjavik summit, is too kind to the Gipper....

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The Dystopia of Modern Singlehood

The Dystopia of Modern Singlehood

The plot of One Night Only is extremely silly. It also contains a grain of truth....

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Trump Delivers a Win for Crooks

Trump Delivers a Win for Crooks

The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption....

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U.S. Vaccine Guidance Is a Mess

U.S. Vaccine Guidance Is a Mess

A new executive order is sowing confusion at a precarious moment....

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The Lesson Watergate Was Supposed to Teach

The Lesson Watergate Was Supposed to Teach

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. thought Nixon’s downfall would restrain presidents for generations. Instead, Watergate helped ...

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Trump’s New Plan to Get His Name Back on the Kennedy Center

Trump’s New Plan to Get His Name Back on the Kennedy Center

The center’s board voted—again—to shut down for a renovation. It threw in a design tweak....

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Hunger Games, MAGA Style

Hunger Games, MAGA Style

A gym-class-style competition might be the oddest 250th celebration yet....

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