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My City’s Drinking Water Is Salty and Foul. Will Your City’s Be Next?
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — For at least 80 days, ever since drought and mismanagement sapped the drinking water supply of my…
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A Celebrity Lesbian Romance Changed My Life. (Even if It Never Happened.)
Social media is rife with fans who believe their fave is secretly queer — and there’s liberation in their fanciful…
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Bob Huggins Resigns From West Virginia After Drunken Driving Charges
The men’s basketball coach, who was arrested Friday in Pittsburgh, had been suspended in May after he used a homophobic…
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Will Children Save Us at the End of the World?
A wave of recent and forthcoming TV series, books and movies meditate on how young people might fare during an…
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Mushrooms Have Taken Over Fashion and Wellness. Up Next: Chocolate
In H. G. Wells’s 1896 short story “The Purple Pileus,” the protagonist attempts to end his life by ingesting fungi;…
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The Supreme Court’s Tarnished Reputation
More from our inbox: Pumping Groundwater and the Earth’s WobbleTreating Politicians as MessiahsHow Libraries Can Help Homeless PeopleCredit...Stefani Reynolds for…
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John Roberts and Clarence Thomas Have the ‘Colorblind’ Constitution All Wrong
If nothing else, the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard is a victory for the conservative…
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A.I. Will Change Medicine but Not What It Means to Be a Doctor
When faced with a particularly tough question on rounds during my intern year, I would run straight to the bathroom.…
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America, Shall I Compare Thee to a Chevy Volt?
Hosted by Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify |…
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Guess Who’s Been Paying to Block Green Energy? You Have.
To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we have to make two big transitions at once: First, we have…