Politics

Our Relatives Keep Bringing Their Dog Over. How Can We Stop Them?

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to tell loved ones that you don’t love their pet.

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Poem: form

The poet, like countless others precariously employed in higher education, faces yet another broke summer. In Eckes’s poem, two forms…

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Judge John Hodgman on Introducing Your Children to Swearing

A dispute about a joke-a-day calendar leads to a surprise ruling on childhood exposure to profanity.

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The Comforting, Cheesy Charm of Chicken Doria

This Japanese answer to a gratin conjures bliss with whatever is already on hand.

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When Bystanders Step Between the Police and Black Men

You’ve seen the videos of deadly encounters. What effect can a witness have?

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Can I Use My Adopted Child’s DNA to Find His Biological Parents?

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on protecting a child’s medical privacy while helping them learn about their past.

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Poem #1022

When the cold optics of domination are left unchallenged, the dead die twice. The cruel euphemism of profit and the…

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Judge John Hodgman on Bagpipe School

Should a family be sentenced to a vacation at Gaelic College?

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The Prison Letters Project: Considering Past Trauma

The case of Ivié DeMolina, convicted for her part in two murders, raises difficult questions about appropriate punishments for serious…

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Ian Fishback’s American Nightmare

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