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How to Cope When You’re Shown the Door
Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to [email protected]. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. Bonus Busting You should be furious. How you’re being treated ...
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Newyork
Dan Savage on Where the Sexual Revolution Went Wrong
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Even if you don’t recognize the advice columnist Dan Savage by name, it’s possible that his ideas have influenced how you think about sex and relationships. For decades now, Savage has been arguing that our ...
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Newyork
Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All
When I was younger, I believed that everybody thought in photo-realistic pictures the same way I did, with images clicking through my mind a little bit like PowerPoint slides or TikTok videos. I had no idea that most people are more word-centric than ...
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US
Why McCarthy’s Slog to Speaker Could Mean Dysfunction Ahead in the House
The top Republican already had to work with a tiny majority and an emboldened right flank. Concessions he made to win his speakership gave the rebels more tools to sow disarray.
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Newyork
‘The Vow’ Is Gripping TV That Doesn’t Solve Its Central Mysteries
Over Christmas, my wife and I finished watching Season 2 of “The Vow,” an HBO documentary about the unraveling of the Nxivm organization — better known to tabloid readers as the “sex slave cult,” after its inner circle, whose members were branded and ...
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News
Fed Officials Ask How to Better Understand Inflation After Surprises
Federal Reserve officials, including Lisa Cook, a board member, are wrestling with how to think about price increases after 18 months of rapid change.
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Books
What a 1985 Novel Can Tell Us About Life in the 2020s: Almost Everything
Noah Baumbach’s funny and very stylish film adaptation of “White Noise” is a great invitation to return to the source material, Don DeLillo’s novel from almost 40 years ago. When I reread it, I was struck by how hilarious it still is, how accurate to ...
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News
Trust the Models? In This Economy?
Historical data has always been critical to those who make economic predictions. But three years into the pandemic, America is suffering through an economic whiplash of sorts — and the past is proving anything but a reliable guide. Forecasts have ...
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US
Travel Meditations From a Stuck-at-Home Vagabond
Rolf Potts, the author who inspired wanderlust in many, has mastered the art of ‘engaged travel,’ which makes you see home with fresh eyes.
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Federal Reserve Expected to Slow Rate Increases and Offer Hints at Future
Central bankers are still fighting inflation, but are poised to slow to a rate increase of half a percentage point at their final meeting of 2022.