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Insights from a 1949 Guide for Housewives
What could I learn from a book directed at ‘the newcomer to running a home’? Source link
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Self-Deportation Is Real
The decline in the immigrant population under Trump shows us that attitudes toward the law are contagious. Source link
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‘Fat Activists’ Oppose Ozempic for the Wrong Reasons
They are against drugs like Ozempic because they wrongly view fatness as an identity. But we should be wary of treating drugs as the only…
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‘Preparation for the Next Life’ Review: A Bittersweet Immigrant Love Story Thrives on Two Terrific Performances
The spark between two soon-to-be lovers ignites inside a Latin nightclub in New York City, as the pair dance with clumsy playfulness to…
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‘Ask E. Jean’ Review: Urgent Documentary Sharply Follows the Pioneering Media Personality Who Sued Trump With Sexual Assault and Defamation Allegations — and Won Twice
For decades, trailblazing journalist E. Jean Carroll had been among the most influential voices in media, penning a dedicated advice…
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‘Broken English’ Review: An Adoring Hybrid Ode to Marianne Faithfull That Gives Her the Last Salty Word
In his autobiography, Keith Richards described “As Tears Go By,” a disarmingly simple ballad that he and Mick Jagger composed under…
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Political Gnosticism Is a Modern Sickness
The conspiratorial belief that massive hidden systems need to be exposed is gripping left and right. Source link
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Hollywood’s School of Hard Knocks
Bruce Handy provides a flawed but fun survey of a social phenomenon that American pop culture essentially invented: ‘teenagerhood.’ Source…
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The Risk in Trump’s Ukraine War Exertions
Are America’s interests truly being served in the president’s diplomatic push? Source link
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Seeing France for the First Time
We never did encounter the legendary rudeness and scorn of Parisians, one of many pleasant surprises and unexpected insights. Source link
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The Worst of Woke, Courtesy of the Smithsonian
Good and bad news in the White House’s push for more balance and less bile. Source link
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‘Highway 99: A Double Album’ Review: Ethan Hawke Goes to the Tender, Conflicted Heart of Merle Haggard in the Rich Documentary He’s Deserved
If you watched Ken Burns’ 16-hour “Country Music” documentary when it came out in 2019, you might’ve been wishing that every legend whose…
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Gallipoli at 110
Instead of diverting German resources to the south and shortening the war, it exhausted the Allies and extended it. Source link
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‘No Other Choice’ Review: Park Chan-wook’s Dazzling Murder Comedy is a Masterclass in Controlled Chaos
You have been fired. You have taken a menial job and are barely scraping together the family necessities: food, mortgage, frequently…
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Trump Can Fire Lisa Cook
Subjecting the Fed to presidential control would restore political accountability for public policy choices to the elected branches of…
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Why I Said the Federal Reserve Is Unconstitutional
‘But it works well’ is not a sufficient legal argument. Source link
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Lisa Cook Is Wrong
The Court will surely be reluctant to grasp the nettle on the Fed. Yet there’s little doubt that, on the legal merits, Cook should be…
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In Defense of Prayer
Democrats’ dismissive attitude toward prayer is rooted in arrogance. Source link
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The Conservative Case Against Protectionism and Interventionism Is the Same
Humility in the face of complexity; preservation over reinvention. Source link
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Caught Stealing Chases Ethnic Identity
Darren Aronofsky externalizes his/our anxieties. Source link
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Ministers didn't do cost review of English council mergers
Joshua NevettPolitical reporter The UK government did not do its own analysis of the cost of the biggest reorganisation of councils in…
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The Trump Administration’s Very Online Celebrities Are Its Biggest Headaches
Appointees who represent the biggest departures from convention are the squeakiest wheels, and not in a good way. Source link
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The Bolton Investigation Reportedly Involves More Than the Old Controversy over His Memoir
Even if the claims are true, it doesn’t make it less petty to pursue a criminal investigation against him. Source link