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A fable for our times (with apologies to Shel Silverstein)
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It’s tempting to think that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was fated to disgrace the royal family. But what if there were a what-if?
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The screenwriter of the Academy Award–winning film Argo, which dramatized the daring exfiltration of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran during the 1979–81 hostage crisis, on what’s at stake in Iran today
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In 1982, the first American journalist admitted to Iran after the hostage crisis interviewed a prickly Ali Khamenei—before he became an ayatollah. His death in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike brought the encounter rushing back
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The slippery slope from nuclear warfare to eating kittens
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David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest—which turns 30 this month—foresaw a near-future America pleasuring itself to death. We’re living in it
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Following the Bezos bloodbath at The Washington Post, a legendary investigative reporter gives a rallying cry for his embattled craft
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Ahead of the Super Bowl halftime show, Bad Bunny’s No. 1 fan comes to his defense
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Why the next Winter Olympics may be hosted in the desert
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An investigation has been launched into the Swiss nightclub fire that left 40 dead—many of them teenagers—but trust in the European system remains shaken
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Two Nobel Prize–winning women helped ignite the upheavals in Venezuela and Iran—yet must now resort to extreme measures simply to be heard
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The return of U.S. troops to Puerto Rico’s long-shuttered military bases has re-ignited old concerns—and a battle many thought was over
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Every decade has a reigning ethos—a Zeitgeist, as the Germans say. In the 2020s, it’s smash-and-grab
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Are we getting stupider? The data should be taken with a grain of salt, but the headlines are harder to dismiss
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An urgent message from Santa Claus
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There’s a clear line from Bush v. Gore, 25 years ago, to the January 6 insurrection
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Vladimir Putin has spent the past decade re-writing the history of the Soviet collapse in service of his own ends. It worked
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How flags—once symbols of patriotism, from children’s classrooms to Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell’s Union Jack dress—got co-opted by the far right
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Trump’s war on the media has generated a lot of sound and fury, not to mention a handful of well-publicized settlements—but few actual victories in court
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When the mayor of a small beach town in Spain mounted a defense of the bikini in 1953, he had no idea it would trigger the fall of Franco’s Fascist regime
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Let me tell you about a technology that’s censor-proof, beyond the reach of A.I., and optimized for “deeper reading.” It’s called ink on paper
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Has it been six years already?
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During the Cold War, America was a haven for Russian dissidents. Now we’re delivering them to the Kremlin
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The Trump administration has waged war on higher education. Why aren’t more university presidents speaking up?
