The country is stuck in a vicious cycle in which one side’s paranoia feeds the other’s
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Having kids has never interfered with my literary aspirations
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An unhinged David Koresh and a bungling government collided
By Kevin Cook
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Social media is the jet fuel that melts the steel beams of skepticism
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He might be the most important businessman you’ve never heard of
By Chris Miller
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No processed foods, no seed oils, no refined sugars, no problem?
By Birdie Hall
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The emotional glue of the Democratic coalition is resentment of the Republican coalition
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The Chinese social media app is ‘digital fentanyl’
By Kara Kennedy
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The FBI and other left-leaning entities have left us in our own Truman Show
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The chair of a new House committee on the PRC faces a daunting in-tray
By Ben Domenech
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The idea that the story of Atlantis records a historical event takes fantasy to new levels
By Peter Jones
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For me, it all mattered. I saw something unfold, and I felt like a part of it
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How the Mad Money host went from stock-picking star to the ‘anti-Midas’
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The problem is that if everything merits a tip, then nothing merits a tip
By Matt Purple
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If you feel as if the driving public is increasingly unsafe, you’re not alone
By Teresa Mull
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Judit Polgár is so much more fascinating than her male counterparts
By Zoe Strimpel
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Books + Arts
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage reviewed
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Britain’s royal family sells books like nobody’s business
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Iron Curtain: A Love Story by Vesna Goldsworthy reviewed
By Amanda Craig
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The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis reviewed
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How can an established artist, especially one this famous, pivot to criticism?
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Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad reviewed
By Anne Sebba
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It reduces a charged premise to something more mundane
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Hollywood used to run on talent. Today, intellectual property is king
By Sam Wasson
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What happens when someone who was cool because they were hated is suddenly accepted?
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I began to find the uncanny experience transporting
By James Panero
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After decades of disorder, the country has a budding art scene
By Adrian Brune
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Life
Take it from Taki: life can be beautiful if one only has beautiful thoughts
By Taki
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They are intelligent, witty, generous and kind-hearted
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During their sessions together The Other Man does that old Freudian trick of staying silent
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From spooning to spoons
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It seems plausible that a small democracy is more intelligent and more wisely ruled than a modern mass one like America
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Place
The Swiss love their clocks, their cheese and their chocolate. They also adore their railway
By Jonathan Ray
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Food and Drink
We need the white stuff to live — and eat well
By Jane Stannus
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Bikavér is the ‘mysterious and historical’ red wine at the heart of Magyar culture
By Will Collins
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It has been said that Kentucky culture distils down to thoroughbred horses, beautiful women and bourbon whiskey
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It’s an appropriate drink with which to reflect on the complexity of life
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One more bottle and we would have gotten ourselves into a land war in Asia — and you know where that leads
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And Finally
If you haven’t tried it, you’re missing out
By Robby Soave
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