CULTURE
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Laurie Santos’s Pursuit of Happiness
Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist at Yale, teaches the most popular course in the university’s three-hundred-year history, Psychology and the…
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“The Frenzy,” by Joyce Carol Oates
With the girl beside him, he has all that he requires. So long as they are alone together, and she…
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 13th
“Maybe we should fight some of our international conflicts the old-fashioned way, like with a chess match, or a race…
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Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 10th
“Thanks, but I still have at least another month of seasonal depression to go.” Source link
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How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
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Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia
If you have spent time on Wikipedia—and especially if you’ve delved at all into the online encyclopedia’s inner workings—you will…
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Trump’s Disgrace | The New Yorker
It was one thing to anticipate this prolonged political moment; it has been, these past weeks, quite another to live…
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Jericho Brown Reads Elizabeth Alexander
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The New Trump-Family Megaphone | The New Yorker
Late last month, after President Donald Trump suggested that diversity initiatives were to blame for a plane crash in Washington,…
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The Trump Administration Trashes Europe and NATO
The Munich Security Conference, a usually staid gathering of diplomatic and military leaders, offered up a startling moment last week…
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