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The once-cherished ideal of dispensing impartial justice has all but disappeared.
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A new Israeli government won’t deliver peace overnight, but it could reverse the trajectory toward endless conflict.
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The spread of conspiracy theories about Senators Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell underscores the lack of trust in American society.
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has avoided a midlife crisis for good reason: It’s a timeless portrait of popularity and truthiness.
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“Our words do much of our thinking for us; we are necessarily manipulated by them.” (From 1975)
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The Election Deniers Are in Charge Now
In Georgia, where Donald Trump once tried to “find” more than 11,000 votes, election deniers are now in powerful election-board positions.
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Maya MacGuineas on the looming exhaustion of the Social Security Trust Fund and whether America will ever have a responsible federal budget. Plus: another ICE shooting and A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel.
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The Hidden Cost of Optimizing Everything
How technology is disconnecting us from life’s small pleasures
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