Politics
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The Homeowners Who Beat the National Association of Realtors
Six home sellers in Missouri successfully argued that the powerful real estate trade group’s rules on commissions forced them to…
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Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90
He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led…
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Why Japanese Maples Are Like Potato Chips (or Orchids)
You won’t stop at just one, once you discover what they can do for your garden: “People get obsessed.”
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The Best Way to Welcome Spring? Give Your Foyer a Makeover.
Your entryway has been working hard all winter. But it’s a new season: Time to lighten things up.
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$750,000 Homes in Pennsylvania, Maine and Louisiana
A converted 1840 schoolhouse in Phoenixville, a one-bedroom condominium in Portland and a two-story house in New Orleans.
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Biden Is Breaking Campaign Rule No. 1. And It Just Might Work.
Should we have trillionaires? Should we even have billionaires? According to at least one recent analysis, the economy is on…
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One Purple State Is ‘Testing the Outer Limits of MAGAism’
On Nov. 5, North Carolina will determine whether a slate of Republican candidates who believe that the 2020 election was…
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Has Liberalism Found a Coherent Sexual Ethics?
The death of Hugh Hefner and the dawn of the #MeToo era, coinciding in the autumn of 2017, seemed to…
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How I Found Hope in Standardized Tests
This month, the University of Texas at Austin joined the wave of selective universities reversing Covid era test-optional admissions policies,…
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The Case for More Insults
By Rafi Kohan Produced by Sophia Alvarez Boyd It’s easy to dismiss competitive language, also known as trash talk, as…