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$2.5 Million Homes in California
A midcentury-modern retreat in Palm Springs, a hillside house in wine country and a three-bedroom home with a guesthouse and…
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Why It’s So Challenging to Land Upright on the Moon
Two spacecraft have ended up askew on the lunar surface this year. It is easier to tip over in the…
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The Miracle Weight-Loss Drug Is Also a Major Budgetary Threat
The U.S. health care system has struggled for decades with the tension between providing incentives for pharmaceutical innovation and keeping…
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Flaco Never Had a Chance
It’s been more than a week since I read the news and I can still hardly believe it. Flaco, the…
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A Nuclear Weapon Strikes. What Happens Next?
By ‘The Opinions’ Produced by Phoebe Lett and Alison Bruzek What would it feel like to live through a nuclear…
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Imagining a Brokered Democratic Convention if Biden Drops Out
More from our inbox: The Need for Human Skills in a World of A.I.Not All Fun and Games: A Lament…
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Italy’s Oscar Nominee Is a Great Film, but It Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
Of all the offerings this Oscar season, one stands out: “Io Capitano.” A nominee for best international feature film, the…
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How Democrats Can Win Anywhere and Everywhere
When Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania got an emergency call about I-95 last June, his first thought turned to semantics.…
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Why Elon Musk Is the Second Most Important Person in MAGA
One of the most remarkable developments of the new century has been the concentration of right-wing power and adulation in…
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Easing the Daily Reality of My Strangeness
Like many African American professors, I teach at a predominantly white institution (Wheaton College) and live in the largely white…