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Red State, Blue State. Tight State, Loose State.
Political biases are omnipresent, but what we don’t fully understand yet is how they come about in the first place.…
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How the Right Turned Radical and the Left Became Depressed
One of the notable dynamics of American life today is that conservatives report being personally happier than liberals but also…
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What Does It Mean to Be Ready to Die?
Nine years ago, near the end of my residency training, I sat across from a patient, wondering whether he’d accepted…
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Here’s How to Handle North Korea: Give Peace a Chance
Not many people know how to wage nuclear war. I’m one of them. As a young U.S. Air Force fighter…
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Eastern Kentucky Needs Flood Relief, Not Another Federal Prison
Along the riverbanks of Eastern Kentucky, the redbud trees are just starting to bloom, their branches still lumbering under the…
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I Did Not Feel the Need to See People ‘Like Me’ on TV or in Books
I didn’t know that I wanted there to be Band-Aids for Black people. There are now, in a nice range…
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Bill Zehme, Author With a Knack for Humanizing the Famous, Dies at 64
A prolific biographer, he charmed his way into access to, and insights about, Frank Sinatra, Hugh Hefner, Johnny Carson and…
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Ann Wilson, Last Survivor of an Influential Art Scene, Dies at 91
Working from a gritty loft in Lower Manhattan in the late 1950s, she made abstract paintings on quilts that brought…
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Alexander Skarsgard Explains the Answer to Everything. (It Involves Doing Some Math.)
OpinionSupported by Continue reading the main storyAlexander Skarsgard Explains the Answer to Everything. (It Involves Doing Some Math.) March 28,…
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What the Push for ‘Parents’ Rights’ Is Really About
You may have heard the phrase “parents’ rights.” It sounds unobjectionable — of course parents should have rights — which…