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Is America a City on a Hill or a Nation on the Precipice?
If America were a painting, it would almost certainly be a self-portrait. Ours is a nation obsessed with depicting and…
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Science
How Science Went to the Dogs (and Cats)
This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions. Every dog has…
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World
No Appendix, No Problem. Australia’s Remote Doctors Tell All.
Being the only physician around for hundreds of miles isn’t always bad. “It’s quite liberating to be like, ‘I’m the…
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Books
Have Refrigerators Spoiled Everything?
FROSTBITE: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves,byNicola Twilley Consider the improbable fact of the supermarket banana. In…
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Business
What the Arrival of A.I. Phones and Computers Means for Our Data
Apple, Microsoft and Google need more access to our data as they promote new phones and personal computers that are…
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Science
Are We Loving Our Pets to Death?
Pet owners are treating their animal charges ever more like humans. But that isn’t good for pets, or for us,…
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Books
How Lesbians Found One Another, From the Softball Field to the Sex-Toy Shop
In “A Place of Our Own,” June Thomas considers “six spaces that shaped queer women’s culture.”
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News
The 2024 Election Hinges on Voters Who Hate Politics
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ The biggest divide in our politics isn’t between Democrats and Republicans, or even left…
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What Happens When You Knock on 8,000 Doors
In 2018, the district judge for our area of south-central Montana was retiring and encouraged my husband, Ray, to run…
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I Think My Husband Has Dementia. Can I Leave Him Before It Worsens?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what happens when the implications of marital vows to love “in sickness and in health”…