America
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Books
Lying All the Way to the Bank in ‘America Fantastica’
Tim O’Brien’s manic satire follows a disgraced journalist on a criminal road trip through a myth-addled nation.
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News
A Brief History of a Problematic Appetizer
Americans didn’t always have an appetite for squid. As recently as 1970, U.S. fishermen caught squid mostly by mistake, and…
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News
Are There Lessons for Israel From America’s Response to 9/11?
If you compare the massacres carried out by Hamas in Israel with the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as…
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Magazine
Down the Rabbit Hole With Miffy
Hordes of young adults in North America are embracing joy and childhood nostalgia with Miffy, a poker-faced, fictional, Dutch bunny.
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News
The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana
When Hamas attacked Israel, Republicans knew whom to blame: President Biden. Donald Trump asserted that the attack wouldn’t have happened…
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News
The Israel-Gaza War Means Hard Choices for Ukraine
For the last two years, the debate over the American commitment to Ukraine has turned, in part, on whether we…
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News
Will Voters Send In the Clowns?
I’m not a historian, but as far as I know, America has never seen anything like the current political craziness.…
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News
In America, Not Having a College Degree Can Take Years Off Your Life
By many measures, the U.S. economy is thriving: Unemployment stands close to the 50-year low set in April, the fraction…
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News
This Is Why I Hate Banned Books Week
Walk past any bookstore or library in America this week, and you are likely to find a sign exhorting you…
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News
Will Biden’s Climate Law Change Your Life Before November 2024?
More than a year after its passage, much about President Biden’s climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, is working. America…