Politics
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America’s Thirst for Authoritarianism
Around the world, authoritarianism is ascendant and democracy is in decline. A 2022 report from the International Institute for Democracy…
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American Students Outperformed the Rest of the World During the Pandemic
By now, you’ve probably registered the alarm that pandemic learning loss has produced a “lost generation” of American students. This…
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How to Hold an Anticapitalist Art Auction
A 37-year-old artist who calls himself Penny Pinch says he’s an anticapitalist, but not the angry kind. His paintings feature…
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Training People to Think of Themselves as Weak Is a Form of Abuse
The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been roundly condemned for arguing…
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Luiz Barroso, Who Supercharged Google’s Reach, Dies at 59
In designing warehouse-size data centers that behaved like a single computer, he changed the fabric of the internet.
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Mary Cleave, Who Glimpsed a Blighted Earth From Space, Dies at 76
After flying on two shuttle missions and viewing a deteriorating world out a spacecraft window, she turned to environmental research…
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Two Opinion Writers on the Biggest Takeaways From Liz Cheney’s Memoir
By Carlos Lozada and Katherine Miller Produced by Vishakha Darbha Former House Representative Liz Cheney’s recently published book, “Oath and…
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$1.1 Million Homes in New York, Illinois and Washington
A circa 1720 stone house in Kerhonkson, a 1912 Colonial Revival home in Wilmette and a 1926 Craftsman cottage in…
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‘Couples Therapy,’ but for Politics
Growing political polarization is a problem that keeps me up at night. Not because I think it’s bad to have…
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How Meta’s New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance
Meta’s $300 smart glasses look cool but lack a killer app, and they offer a glimpse into a future with…