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A decade ago, the inaugural season of Serial debuted. The podcast, about the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and...

For more than 25 years, some of reality TV’s most memorable—and villainous—contenders have declared that they’re “not here to make...

For years, the dominant belief in both parties has been that Democrats need to run up a big lead in...

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1984 ends not with a bang, but with a grammar lesson. Readers of George Orwell’s novel—still reeling, likely, from the...

At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the...

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Elon Musk didn’t just get a social network—he got a political weapon.It’s easy to forget that Elon Musk’s purchase of...

(for Jan) The mind is a prison, portcullis- hidden, surrounded by a moat. Rituals inside designed for correction. The dangerous...