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Elite College Admissions Have Turned Students Into Brands
“I just can’t think of anything,” my student said. After 10 years of teaching college essay writing, I was familiar…
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This Is the Way the World Ends (According to Novelists)
In the opening chapters of “2054,” a new thriller co-written by Elliot Ackerman and Adm. James Stavridis, the action shifts…
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17 New Books Coming in April
The Cemetery of Untold Stories, by Julia Alvarez After decades in America, a Dominican writer named Alma Cruz “retires” to…
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The Rising Nuclear Threat
Readers respond to the “At the Brink” series of Opinion articles.
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The Persistent Threat to Abortion Rights
The Supreme Court this week heard the first major challenge to abortion rights since it struck down Roe v. Wade…
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The Case for Saying ‘I Do’
With little notice, the United States may be crossing a historic milestone in family structure, one that may shape our…
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It’s Easter 2050. Here’s What American Religion Looks Like.
Another Easter, another survey showing religion’s recent ebb: This one is from Gallup, confirming a deepening of the 21st-century decline…
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Do Not Empower the Criminals in Haiti
Here’s what I remember most about my childhood growing up under a dictatorship in Haiti: fear. We could never speak…
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The Eclipse Was So Nice, They’re Doing It Twice
The rendezvous between the sun and the moon in 2017 captivated a small region in the Midwest. Lucky for Americans…
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How Worlds Collided for Swifties Who Were Already Football Fans
The Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce romance has brought together two of the internet’s most engaged fan bases. What happens when you’re…