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Opinion
The Part of the Kristi Noem Saga That I Can’t Shake
Americans like feeling as though they know their political leaders personally. And yet I think many of us now feel…
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News
I Asked South Dakota Dog Trainers About Kristi Noem
The governor defends her story of killing her dog, but not everyone in her home state does.
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Science
Orangutan, Heal Thyself
For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal…
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Can I Ask My Mother-in-Law Who My Wife’s Biological Father Is?
Although his wife has long maintained that she doesn’t want to know the identity of her birth father, a reader…
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I’m Pregnant, and My Husband Says We Can’t Tell Anyone About the Donor Egg
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to honor a spouse’s seemingly irrational request about privacy and assisted reproduction.
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News
Getting Dressed for the ‘Muslim Met Gala’
Hasan Minhaj and Ramy Youssef joined hundreds of Muslims dressed to the nines at a morning prayer gathering for the…
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Should I Confront Our Former Minister Over His Plagiarized Sermons?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on grace, intellectual property, and pastorly accountability.
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Opinion
We Owe It to Nex Benedict to Do Better by Bullied Teens
There’s much we don’t know about why Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager in Owasso, Okla., died a day after a…
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Books
The Deadly Business of Restricting Immigration
In “Brought Forth on This Continent” and “The Last Ships From Hamburg,” people fleeing violence and famine meet resistance in…
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Opinion
Can Domestic Violence Victims Have Safety Without Secrecy?
I once visited a domestic violence shelter in New England. It was a small, nondescript Cape Cod-style house, jammed between…
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