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A First Step Toward Shrinking Government
Following the Trump administration’s cuts, the federal government employs the lowest percentage of U.S. workers since World War II. Source…
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Business
The Paradoxes—and Problems—of the Family-Vlogging Industry
“Like, Follow, Subscribe” is decently reported, if clunkily written; it lacks the legal and philosophical acumen of Leah A. Plunkett’s…
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The Iranian Sharia-Supremacist Regime and ‘Civilian’ Infrastructure
There are no ‘civilians,’ in the Western sense, in Iran, and the IRGC uses the infrastructure for its war aims. Source link
Culture
In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family
Witchcraft was traditionally a form of occult knowledge: esoteric, hidden, available only to initiates. Now, though, with the widespread…
Culture
Will Biblical Womanhood Box You In or Set You Free?
Twenty years ago, Hatmaker was much like Waters: a young pastor’s wife raising three little kids while writing her first books on Biblical…
Culture
We Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing
Genetic research has been complicating the idea of the genome as a determinative blueprint. Source link
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In Film, Sometimes the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen
Directing movies is also a matter of production—of the interpersonal, the administrative, and the technical practicalities that go into…
Business
Christoph Niemann’s “New Horizons”
For the cover of the April 13, 2026, Future Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann depicted an army of machines filling the horizon, one of…
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Thirty Years After Welfare Reform, It’s Time for the Next Generation of State-Led Solutions
The problem with today’s safety net isn’t intent; it’s design. State leadership would help fix it. Source link
Culture
A Malaysian Menu Laced with the Flavors of Brooklyn
The best thing on the menu at Kelang, a Malaysian restaurant in Greenpoint that opened in December, is a puffy paratha on a bed of spiced…
Culture
He Wrote a Book About Interviewing. Here’s His Interview.
I want to be able to speak freely, and I want you to be able to speak freely, and in order to do that I think you should have more freedom…
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The Fog of War Against Iran
When America loses a war, it is generally because of political reaction at home, notwithstanding smashing success on the battlefield.…
Culture
How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer
Rauschenberg returned to Black Mountain for the summer of 1951. By then, the photographers Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan were teaching…
Culture
My Brief Time in John F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Orbit
His curiosity extended to the universe. One night, at a house party, John and I ended up in the back yard, drinking beer. Suddenly he…
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Yes, Boldly Go
Getting back to the moon is nice, but it is a manned mission to Mars that should be our ultimate objective. Source link
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Europe’s Right-Wing Parties Can’t Afford to Neglect Young People
Building coalitions around older voters shows a lack of understanding of growing generational tensions in politics. Source link
Culture
New Directors, New Films
Also: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in “The Drama,” Michael Schulman on spring fabulosity, Rachel Syme on the latest in trenchcoats, and…
Business
Consumers aren’t clicking the PayPal button. It's a big problem for California’s fintech pioneer
PayPal, once the cutting-edge trailblazer of digital payments, is struggling to cash in on consumer clicks like it used to. The San José…
Business
Is It Wrong to Write a Book with A.I.?
And yet the value of a novel isn’t only in its prose. On Amazon, “Shy Girl” has a rating of four out of five stars, based on input from…
Culture
An Artists’ Duel Proves Restorative in “The Christophers”
Once Lori enters Julian’s home, the film springs to life. So does Soderbergh’s camera, which begins sniffing and roving about the space…
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President Trump Was Playing for Time in His Iran Speech
The little-known U.S. weakness is that it’s running out of high-tech munitions. Source link
Culture
“The Drama” Struggles to Justify Its Combustible Premise
Does the movie itself know who she is? I’m not so sure. Emma is a literary editor, though the specifics are awfully vague—a late subplot…