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A small group of lawmakers with military or intelligence backgrounds prefigured Harris’s overtly patriotic campaign.
Stores Are Small Now
In brick-and-mortar retail, bigger is not always better.
Lora Kelley September 4, 2024
It Matters If It’s COVID
Now is the perfect time to test whether your “cold” is something else.
Rachel Gutman-Wei September 4, 2024
Trump’s Red-Pill Podcast Tour
Is this an election campaign or an extended ad for energy drinks?
Helen Lewis September 4, 2024
Paralympics Photo of the Day: Winding Up a Powerful Throw
A medal-winning performance in Paris
Alan Taylor September 4, 2024
How to Know What’s Really Propaganda
How the history of propaganda helps us understand our current reality
Megan Garber and Andrea Valdez September 4, 2024
The Democrat Who’s Not That Worried About Trump
Is this the most important election ever? Representative Jared Golden doesn’t think so.
Russell Berman September 4, 2024
AI Is Coming for Amateur Novelists. That’s Fine.
An annual speed-writing contest lets in the robot overlords, and I, for one, welcome them.
Gal Beckerman September 4, 2024
Slow Horses and the Dark Psychology of an Unwinnable Game
The show’s masterful fourth outing unpacks the steep cost of a trade in which people are expendable.
Sophie Gilbert September 4, 2024
The Friendship Paradox
We all want more time with our friends, but we’re spending more time alone.
Olga Khazan September 4, 2024
Inside the Dangerous, Secretive World of Extreme Fishing
Why I swim out into rough seas 80 nights a year to hunt for striped bass
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What Trump Doesn’t Understand About the Military
A man without honor or courage hates America’s service members.
Tom Nichols September 3, 2024
Paralympics Photo of the Day: A Dodge and Parry
A wheelchair fencer leans far back while deflecting an attack.
Alan Taylor September 3, 2024
Donald Trump’s Incredible ‘Transgender Thing’
The former president’s claim that public schools are providing sex-change operations is wrong—and dangerous.
Elaine Godfrey September 3, 2024
Bipartisan Criminal-Justice Reform Is Still Very Much Alive
Yes, the pace of progress has slowed, but it certainly continues.
Udi Ofer September 3, 2024
The Nearly Impossible Task of Describing Pain
Garth Greenwell’s latest novel finds the language to capture the ineffable human experience of serious illness.
Walt Hunter September 3, 2024
America’s New Climate Delusion
The U.S. could sink billions into curbing emissions without altering the fate of the places climate change affects most.
Zoë Schlanger September 3, 2024
Why It’s So Hard to Know What to Do With Your Baby
There simply isn’t good evidence—as in large, randomized, controlled, blinded trials—for many pediatric practices.
Olga Khazan September 3, 2024
Rachel Kushner’s Surprising Swerve
She and her narrators have always relied on swagger—but not this time.
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