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All the Sad Hawks
Neoconservatives are struggling to reconcile their hopes for Trump with the failure of his Iran war.
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Trump in Defeat
The president went to war triumphant and will likely leave greatly weakened.

The sensory enchantment of everyday life can upend the bland monotony of our overly optimized, anodyne world.

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America Is Done Pretending About Meat
Plant-based eating has lost its appeal. (From 2025)
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The Most Haunting Truth of Parenthood
What my father learned working in a nuclear-bomb shelter is what every parent knows deep down: We can’t protect the ones we love forever. (From 2022)
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How Do I Love Thee?
A growing number of internet dating sites are relying on academic researchers to develop a new science of attraction. A firsthand report from the front lines of an unprecedented social experiment: (From 2006)
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Dynamite
The tragedy of our exploding ghettos has historical roots in the false expectations of the Reconstruction era, and in the refusal of American citizens to sense the frustration and violence gathering in the slums. (From 1967)

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Cuba Is Collapsing. Will Trump Invade?
The CNN international correspondent Patrick Oppmann on Trump’s fixation on Cuba, the current state of the Cuban government, and what happens next. Plus: J. D. Vance’s presidential aspirations, and Othello.
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Autocracy in America
There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
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How to Age Up on a Warming Planet
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