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Casting a Bright Light on the Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’
A new book by the legal scholar Stephen Vladeck argues that unsigned and unexplained decisions issued through the court’s shadow…
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Trump’s Lesson for the Media and Ron DeSantis
Just before the South Carolina Republican primary in 2012, CNN’s John King opened a presidential debate by asking Newt Gingrich…
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When One Almond Gulps 3.2 Gallons of Water
RIO VERDE FOOTHILLS, Ariz. When interviewing people in their homes here, I didn’t have the heart to ask them if…
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The Best Thing to Emerge From the Pandemic: Permission to Wear Soft Pants
Less than three weeks into the March 2020 lockdowns in New York City, my boyfriend turned to me with a…
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Conservative Media Has an Audience Problem
In last week’s newsletter, I wrote about the divergent intellectual climates in journalism and academia, but mostly left conservative media…
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The Panic Over Biden’s Age Is Manufactured
The relationship between political campaigns, the news media and the public isn’t exactly an interplay between independent actors. It’s a…
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How to Overhaul the C.D.C.
Long recognized as the nation’s leading public health institution and widely respected around the world, the Centers for Disease Control…
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An Apology for Saying ‘Sorry’
I have a fraught relationship with the words “I’m sorry.” I say it constantly, habitually, even when I don’t mean…
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Style
A Banana Peel Has Made Me Question My Marriage. Who’s Right?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on a minor misdeed and its larger significance.
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Food
Our 20 Most Saved Recipes of All Time
The dishes readers tucked into their (digital) recipe boxes over and over again.