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Good-bye to all that
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Beloved by Kurt Vonnegut, Groucho Marx, and Sidney Namlerep, S. J. Perelman re-invented American humor
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What would Christopher Hitchens say?
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My lunch with a love-addled suicide bomber. Welcome to life in the new Afghanistan
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Remembering Stephen Sondheim, through his generous correspondence
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As we stand in the latest wave of Beatle reanimania, it’s time to acknowledge they’re making their way across the universe
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How quickly a buzzword can become a buzzkill
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Are the woke in the pockets of the plutocrats? They’re certainly doing a nice job of distracting people from economic injustice
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A 1956 letter reveals one quiet man’s defiance of McCarthyism
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So you want to become a Republican? First, a questionnaire …
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Bernard-Henri Lévy will never give up on hopeless causes
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Fuel shortages, empty supermarket shelves, and bleak holidays ahead: in London, Brexit is finally making itself heard
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In Dopesick, the Sacklers finally get their due
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A planned trip to Greece incurs the wrath of the public-health gods
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Thanks to leaked Facebook documents, the world now knows what every anxious teenage girl could have told us about Instagram all along
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It wasn’t all cake and Versailles for Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France …
How Soon We Forgot “Never Forget”
Twenty years on from September 11, and days after slinking out of Kabul in the dead of night, where are we as a nation?
Blood in the Water
Elizabeth Holmes’s high-tech blood-testing company, Theranos, made her a paper billionaire—until she and it were alleged to be frauds. Here, the first in a six-part series tracing Holmes’s epic rise and fall
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Al Gore says it’s not too late to prevent cataclysmic climate change, but is it too late for us to change?
Kabul and Kaput
What do the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan and the White Lotus finale have in common? Plenty
Black Robe, White Knuckles
Justice Breyer’s refusal to retire is not just annoying—it’s a harsh reminder that we always put our own interests above society’s
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Wuthering fights! Will this priceless book collection be preserved or broken up at auction?
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The Taliban can seize power in Afghanistan again, but this time they can’t turn off the lights
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Putin’s absolute rule is challenged by a noisy majority of Russian, woke-hating anti-vaxxers
