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Opinion
Haley and DeSantis Summon the Right Fury for the Wrong Target
I wish Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis had shown a quarter as much contempt for Donald Trump as they did…
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Opinion
Botox Destroyed What I Liked About My Face
I tried Botox for the first time two years ago. I was rapidly approaching my 40th birthday, and, like so…
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Opinion
Is Poor Economic Sentiment All About MAGA?
The economy is good, but Americans feel bad about it. Or do they? The more I look into it, the…
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Opinion
Don’t Be Surprised if Trump Starts Attacking the Fed
Interest rates are heading down. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of this…
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Opinion
Biden Is Trying to Jolt Us Out of Learned Helplessness About Trump
After Joe Biden’s speech on Friday marking the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection and laying out the democratic stakes…
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US
$3 Million Homes in California
A Victorian rowhouse in San Francisco, a 1966 ranch house in Malibu and a three-bedroom home in Menlo Park.
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Magazine
A Novel of the Spanish Conquest, Magic Mushrooms Included
Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires” is a hallucinatory tale of the conquistadors’ arrival at Moctezuma’s gates.
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Magazine
How a Millennial Estée Lauder Built a Widely Popular Beauty Brand
Karissa Bodnar played on her customers’ desire to belong to something bigger than … well, beauty.
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World
Joan Acocella, Dance Critic for The New Yorker, Dies at 78
She wrote about the leading figures in ballet and modern dance for more than 40 years. One of her books…
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Opinion
I Finally Figured Out Who ChatGPT Reminds Me Of
As the mother of an 8-year-old, and as someone who’s spent the past year experimenting with generative A.I., I’ve thought…