Opinion
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Clutter Is Good for You
Several years before she died, my mother began sending me things — ostensibly significant objects. These included expected items like…
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Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month
Like many millennials, I was educated, if that’s the right word for it, on the internet. The online music critics…
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Rikers Island Is the Perfect Place to Build a Casino
Two public development projects are in the works that will indelibly change the character of New York City. Both are…
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The Sad Tales of George Santos
What would it be like to be so ashamed of your life that you felt compelled to invent a new…
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The Trials of Harry and Meghan
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The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs
Two weeks ago, the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey passionately advocated in a blog post the view that neither Twitter nor…
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This 2022 ‘Best of’ List Includes Swaddling a Chicken
For my last newsletter of 2022, I want to highlight parenting media that I loved this year. I tend toward…
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Three Ways to Read Trump
When journalists write books on the presidency of Donald Trump, they tend to choose one of three options. They write…
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The Language We Use to Talk About Domestic Violence Isn’t Enough
On a cold October morning, Colin Canham and his wife, Sara Emerick, were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Mr.…
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Childhood Vaccination Rates Are Falling. Here’s How States Can Raise Them.
Twenty-three years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that measles had been eliminated in the United States.…