The Thing That Struck Me the Most About the Ezra Klein–Ta-Nehisi Coates Conversation

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Bari Weiss’ Takeover of CBS News Will Be a Disaster

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Trump Keeps Winning at the Supreme Court. There Are Two Convincing Theories Why.

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My Neighbor Asked for a Simple Favor. My Wife Insists We Turn Him Down.

If it’s legally fine, then ask your wife to reconsider. This costs you nothing, creates zero inconvenience, and helps a ...

Help! I Was Written Up for Violating an Office Rule. The Only Way They Could’ve Known Is a Total Invasion of Privacy.

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I Worked Hard to Befriend Our New Neighbors. My Sister-in-Law Ruined the Relationship in One Afternoon.

My husband and I just bought a new house in a rural area that is increasingly becoming suburbia, much to the dislike of the ...

My First Year Sober Was Blissful. No One Prepared Me for What Came Next.

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When I Started Dancing in My 60s, I Wasn’t Prepared for What It Would Do to Me

When I first started writing about my relationship to dance, I was careful not to call myself a dancer. Or I put “dancer” in quotes. Not a real dancer, I hoped the quotes made clear. I was a person, a ...

We Finally Discovered What Kinds of Schools Are Best for Our Kids. But My Husband Wants to Take the “Easy” Option.

Our 11-year-old “Sam” goes to a very strict, highly ranked charter middle school. She had a really hard time in elementary ...

Women Are Struggling With Sex, Pooping, and Even Sitting. You Can Guess How Insurers Are Reacting.

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The A.I. Black Hole Swallowing Job Seekers

The job market is a mess. The old system is broken and a functioning replacement has yet to fully emerge. We’re stuck in the between years—a dystopian digital doomscape that has job seekers and hirers ...

The Method to Daniel Day-Lewis’ Madness

Cecil is the kind of man whose idea of flirting is to lean out of a window, cigarette in hand, and tell his quarry, Lucy, “Don’t move! … Did you know you are a Leonardo, smiling at things beyond our ...