Politics

The Best Dessert Mom Made for Us, but Better

Our house had the best treats in the neighborhood. This one we never shared.

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The Comet Strike Theory That Just Won’t Die

In 2007, a group of researchers, led by a nuclear physicist named Richard Firestone, announced an astonishing discovery. They had…

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The Liberation of Being a Fair-Weather Fan

Dumping your sports team sounds blasphemous. But sometimes you have to prioritize a different kind of loyalty.

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Kate Winslet Pushes Her Characters, and Herself, to the Edge

Kate Winslet was standing in front of a microphone, breathing hard.Sometimes she did it fast; sometimes she slowed it down.…

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How Should You Respond to a Friend’s Appalling Post?

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to address a friend’s incendiary social media activity.

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Why ‘Fetal Personhood’ Is Roiling the Right

An Alabama decision on I.V.F. has put an uncompromising principle on a collision course with political reality.

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Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?

At some point in the past few years, as if we didn’t have enough to worry about, everyone’s pants started…

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How to Grow Old Like Isabella Rossellini

If you go to Isabella Rossellini’s Instagram page — and I recommend you do — you will see the 71-year-old…

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Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?

In October 2022, amid a flurry of media appearances promoting their film “Tàr,” the director Todd Field and the star…

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My Dad Cut My Brother Out of His Will. Should I Secretly Split My Inheritance?

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to shield a sibling from a painful truth.

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