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HBO Why Season 2 of Succession Was So Extraordinary
The HBO show had teased a “blood sacrifice” in its thrilling season finale, and it didn’t disappoint.
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BIANCA BAGNARELLI Dear Therapist: My Fiancé Believes Spanking Is Good Parenting
His parents spanked him as a child, and he insists the punishment has shaped him positively.
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Reuters After Poland, No Democracy Is Safe
In the age of populism, certainty about the political future is a dangerous illusion.
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Czarek Sokolowski / AP The Poland Model—Promoting ‘Family Values’ With Cash Handouts
The country’s governing party, which just won another election, has married right-wing social policy with left-wing economic policy.
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Pool / Reuters The Traditional Apex of Britain’s Untraditional Moment
The State Opening of Parliament and the accompanying Queen’s Speech are steeped in ritual and custom, something that feels incongruous as the country grapples with chaos.
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Aris Messinis / Getty The Yogurt Industry Has Been Using CRISPR for a Decade
Long before there were CRISPR babies, there was CRISPR dairy.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump’s Defiance Is Destroying Congress’s Power
Congress and the White House have a tense relationship, and future administrations might well choose to build on rather than repudiate the Trump example of how to respond to a hostile Congress.
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Reuters ISIS Is Gloating
The best one could say about America’s abandonment of the Kurds is that they should have known we would sell them out eventually.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The NCAA Will Never Fix Itself
The presidential candidate Cory Booker, a former Stanford athlete, thinks big-name college sports have gone awry—and he wants Congress to step in.
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John McDonnell / The Washington Post via Getty ... The Blue Wave Faces Its First Test After 2018
Eight months after scandals rocked their party, Democrats are on the cusp of turning Virginia into an all-blue state.
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Illustration: Arsh Raziuddin; LIbrary of Congress / Getty Thomas Edison’s Greatest Invention
It wasn’t the light bulb or the phonograph or the moving picture—or anything tangible. It was a way of thinking about technology.
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Jed Leicester / AP The Greatest, Fakest World Record
History’s best marathoner has broken a mythical time barrier. But it doesn’t count as a world record.
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NBC Woody Harrelson Is a Surprisingly Effective Joe Biden for SNL
The Cheers actor’s impression of the former vice president this season is less friendly and more glossy than the show’s previous attempts.
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Martin Barraud / Getty What I Learned About Equal Partnership By Studying Dual-Income Couples
I studied over 100 dual-income couples and found that the ones who managed to create partnerships that felt truly equal had a few things in common.
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Chloe Cushman Ways of Being
Three new books explore the variety of transgender experiences.
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Start Planting Trees
Recently Deb Fallows kicked off a series of “Big Little Ideas”—innovations or reforms that could be applied fairly easily at…
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Shutterstock Your Neighbor’s Christian Education, Courtesy of Your Tax Dollars
The Court will hear one of the most notable “Church and state” cases in years.
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Peter Kramer / HBO The Bodily Horrors of Succession
Infestation. Insects. Ointment. This is not the stuff you might expect from a work of prestige TV that takes extreme wealth as its subject.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters Monocles Were Never Cool
Unlike other trappings of the aristocracy, the monocle has mostly been a joke since its invention. An Object Lesson.
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Jason O'Brien / Reuters The Best Athlete Americans Have Never Heard Of
American pro athletes face pressure to stick to sports. Australia’s David Pocock has a different idea.
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Zach D Roberts / NurPhoto / Getty Trump’s Court Artist
Jon McNaughton once painted landscapes and religious scenes. Now he’s focused on reverently depicting the Trump era for future generations.
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Nicole Tung The End of Hong Kong’s Postcard Era
The city—famed for its efficiency and predictability—is going through a tumultuous period. Memories of just a few years ago feel more distant as a result.
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Celeste Sloman / The New York Times / ... Debbie Harry Stares Back
The Blondie singer’s memoir, Face It, wryly recounts making the most of being ogled.
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Amy Lombard How Baseball Cards Got Weird
A very analog hobby finds a way to thrive in the digital age.
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Aimee Silla How to Teach a Frog to Love
Amphibians are dying off faster than any other vertebrate group in the world. Can hormones and IVF save them?
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Mike Blake / Reuters Democrats Are Going to Regret Beto’s Stance on Conservative Churches
The candidate seems not to realize that eliminating tax exemptions for certain religious institutions would be catastrophic.
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Corey Torpie / The Atlantic The Search for the Next AOC
Justice Democrats, the organization that brought you Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is hoping 26-year-old Jessica Cisneros will carry the torch in 2020.
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Noah Berger / AP Alone in the Dark in the Bay Area
People were on their own as their homes and businesses lost power.
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Aly Song / Reuters The NBA-China Disaster Is a Stress Test for Capitalism
The business of American business is business. Are we okay with that?
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Eric Vidal / Reuters Why Doesn’t Steve Bannon Matter in Europe?
The former Trump strategist has spent the past year trying to bolster far-right parties on the Continent—with little to show for it.
