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At the University of Chicago: Was It Free Speech, or Harassment?
Readers react to a conservative student’s attempts to shut down a course called “The Problem of Whiteness.”
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In Brazil, Beauty Is a Right. Are They On To Something?
Every person with a toddler knows that her child is in constant imminent peril. Trying to prevent the next near-death…
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We Can’t Just Shoot Our Way Out of This
Our topic today is gun regulation. Come on, stop beating your head against the backyard grill. That thing’s hot. Americans…
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Magazine
Therapy Where the Clothes Come Off (Sometimes)
By combining talk therapy with elements of physical touch, surrogate partners assist people who are struggling with sex and intimacy.
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Books
In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive
It’s hard to overstate how central Milan Kundera was, in the mid-1980s, to literary culture in America and elsewhere. He…
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US
If Biden Wanted to Ease U.S.-China Tensions, Would Americans Let Him?
In polls, Americans’ views of China are starting to resemble their views of the Soviet Union decades ago. That could…
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News
What to Know About ChatGPT’s New Code Interpreter Feature
Graphs, maps and data analyses? Now ChatGPT can do even more.
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Finance
U.S. and E.U. Finalize Long-Awaited Deal on Sharing Data
A deal to ensure that data from Meta, Google and scores of other tech companies can continue flowing between the…
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World
Why China’s Young People Are Not Getting Married
Marriages in China are at a record low. Recent political and economic turmoil have added another reason to postpone tying…
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News
Why We Shouldn’t Lose Faith in Organized Religion
Eboo Patel wants to tell a better story about religion in America. Patel, an American Muslim and founder and president…