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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Imagine standing patiently in line, waiting to vote, and suddenly men with guns arrive on motorcycles and start shooting. Imagine men dashing into your polling unit, violently seizing ballot boxes and taking them away. Imagine other ballot boxes being destroyed.
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I Am Mourning the Loss of Something I Loved: McNuggets
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Have you experienced the magic of McDonald’s Sprite? With its electric spice, its zhush, its je ne sais quoi, it is, of course, supreme among all sugary drinks, a star in the great firmament of processed foods.
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Meet the World’s Most Honorable Bank Robbers
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A wave of armed bank robberies has been sweeping Lebanon amid its economic meltdown. But the heists have followed a highly unusual pattern: The robbers are the banks’ clients, and the money they have been demanding is the contents of their own accounts.
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Our Brains Weren’t Designed for This Kind of Food
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Our society’s dominant narrative is that body size is a product of individual willpower. We are skinny or fat because of the choices we make: the kinds of food we buy, the amounts we eat, the exercise regimens we follow. Research has never been kind to this thesis.
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Conspiracy Theorizing Goes Off the Rails
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On Feb. 3 a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Some of the contents immediately caught fire. Three days later authorities released and burned off additional material from five tankers.
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Hunter Biden Has Some Explaining to Do
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Name a recurring Fox News segment, and there is a Republican congressional investigation for it: the origin of the coronavirus, the threat to our capital markets, supposed collaboration between social media companies and the Democratic Party.
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Netanyahu Is Shattering Israeli Society
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Israel today is a boiler with way, way too much steam building up inside, and the bolts are about to fly off in all directions.
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My Fellow Liberals Are Exaggerating the Dangers of Ron DeSantis
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To judge by several early polls, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has a decent shot of beating former President Donald Trump in the race to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
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A War With China Would Be Unlike Anything Americans Faced Before
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The most probable spark is a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. President Xi Jinping of China has said unifying Taiwan with mainland China “must be achieved.
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The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About
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In 2021, I interviewed Ted Chiang, one of the great living sci-fi writers. Something he said to me then keeps coming to mind now. “I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism,” Chiang told me.
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Why Fox News Lied to the Viewers It ‘Respects’
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There are some stories that are important enough to pause the news cycle and linger on them, to explore not just what happened, but why. And so it is with Fox News’s role in the events leading up to Jan. 6, 2021.
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Even Democrats Like Me Are Fed Up With San Francisco
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Few subjects please Tucker Carlson more than sticking a shiv into the city of his birth — San Francisco. Sadly, Mr. Carlson has plenty of reasons for portraying San Francisco as a crippled city, hence his fondness for broadcasting clips of homeless encampments and drug addicts. But Mr.
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From Carter to M.T.G.: What a Peach State Plummet
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When Jimmy Carter was president, I was a lowly clerk at The Washington Star. I saw him mostly through the eyes of Pat Oliphant, our brilliant, biting cartoonist.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Has a Dream
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, now one of the most influential Republicans in the House of Representatives, says it is time for Americans to consider a national divorce. “Tragically, I think we, the left and right, have reached irreconcilable differences,” Greene wrote a few days ago on Twitter.
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The Wisdom and Prophecy of Jimmy Carter’s ‘Malaise’ Speech
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On July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter emerged from days of isolation to deliver the most important and memorable address of his life.
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Mike Pence’s Dangerous Ploy
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Former Vice President Mike Pence recently announced he would challenge Special Counsel Jack Smith’s subpoena for him to appear before a grand jury in Washington as part of the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the related Ja
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Let’s All Do the DeSantis Shimmy!
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I suppose all contemporary young politicians dream of meeting their moment. At the enthusiastic dawn of their politico careers, they entertain a fantasy that some day, as a great historical challenge looms into view, their future selves will rise to the occasion — and masterfully dodge it!
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The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?
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The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses — including Covid-19 — was published late last month.
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Jimmy Carter’s Presidency Was Not What You Think
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The man was not what you think. He was tough. He was extremely intimidating. Jimmy Carter was probably the most intelligent, hard-working and decent man to have occupied the Oval Office in the 20th century.
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The Teenager Leading the Smartphone Liberation Movement
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How many hours do you spend on your phone each day? Probably more than you’d like. In our technology-saturated world, we rely on our devices for what feels like an endless list of daily tasks — everything from staying up-to-date on Twitter to killing time at the post office.
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American Teens Are Really Miserable. Why?
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American teenagers, and especially American teenage girls, are increasingly miserable: more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts and act on them, more likely to experience depression, more likely to feel beset by “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness,” to quote a survey report from th
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We’re Not Asking the Right Question About Biden
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There is no end of commentary gently — and not so gently — urging President Biden to act his age and step aside. And all else being equal, I share that sentiment. I don’t think we want a president ending his second term closer to 90 than he is to 80. But all else is never equal.
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Who’s Afraid of Black History?
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Lurking behind the concerns of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, over the content of a proposed high school course in African American studies, is a long and complex series of debates about the role of slavery and race in American classrooms.
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Bruce Willis, My Father, and the Decision of a Lifetime
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The letter from Bruce Willis’s family bore seven names — Emma, Demi, Rumer, Scout, Tallulah, Mabel and Evelyn — and a picture of the actor smiling on the beach.
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