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How to Redeem Social Media in One Easy Step
NASHVILLE — Not quite halfway through the new season of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” a young woman, Portia, breaks into tears at breakfast. She is staying at a luxury resort in Sicily as the personal assistant of one of the wealthy guests. While her ...
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Newyork
Don’t Try to Appease Economic Terrorists
A few days ago I received an automated text from my bank. For some reason the bank’s algorithm flagged a valid charge on my debit card as potentially questionable; the text asked me to verify the purchase. In a rational world raising the federal debt ...
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Newyork
When Did We All Become Pop Culture Detectives?
Harvesting Easter eggs has become integral to our consumption of entertainment. But there’s a fine line between perceptiveness and paranoia.
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Newyork
Speaker, Speaker, What Do You See? I See MAGA Looking at Me.
Bret Stephens: Gail, remember “We Need To Talk About Kevin,” the unforgettable Lionel Shriver novel about a woman whose son murders his classmates? Maybe someone should write the sequel: “We Need To Talk About What They Did to Kevin.” Gail Collins: A ...
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World
Fuel Tanker Wedged Beneath Overpass Explodes Near Hospital in South Africa
At least nine people were killed and 60 injured from the ensuing fireball, in a scene a witness described as a “zombie apocalypse.”
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Science
Using Fossils to Bring a River Covered in Concrete Back to Life
The field of conservation paleobiology is helping scientists to bring living things back to parts of the Los Angeles River.
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Science
Geminid Meteor Shower: How and When to Watch It Peak
Tuesday night into Wednesday morning will be one of the special dates scattered throughout each year when skywatchers can catch a meteor shower as a multitude of flares potentially burst in the darkness. Meteor showers occur when our planet runs into ...
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Science
Telescopes Team Up to Forecast an Alien Storm on Titan
Saturn’s largest moon came under the gaze of NASA’s powerful Webb space observatory, allowing it and another telescope to capture clouds drifting through Titan’s methane-rich atmosphere.
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World
Your Monday Briefing: The Social Cost of ‘Zero Covid’
Plus, Iran abolishes the morality police and Russia vows to defy an oil price cap.
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Newyork
What Euthanasia Has Done to Canada
La Maison Simons, commonly known as Simons, is a prominent Canadian fashion retailer. In late October it released a three-minute film: a moody, watery, mystical tribute. Its subject was the suicideof a 37-year-old British Columbia woman, Jennyfer ...