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Did you buy a home with a high interest rate and intend to refinance later?
Ever since mortgage interest rates jumped in 2022, some Californians have had…
California legislators push law change after ruling against family in Nazi looted art case
California legislators plan to introduce a bill Thursday that would bolster efforts…
Why Attacks on Trump’s Mental Acuity Don’t Land
Ten years ago, I stood in the back of a large room…
The House Republicans Who Have Had Enough
House Republicans didn’t exactly have a banner year in 2023. They made…
Winter Illness This Year Is a Different Kind of Ugly
Earlier this month, Taison Bell walked into the intensive-care unit at UVA…
The Specter of Family Separation
Almost as soon as Donald Trump took office in 2017, agents from…
The Vanishing of Ammon Bundy
Two weeks before chaos hit St. Luke’s hospital in Boise, Idaho—before Ammon…
What The Atlantic Got Wrong About Reconstruction
The last time The Atlantic decided to reckon with Reconstruction in a…
An abrupt jump from living in a car to an apartment is ‘almost a shock wave’
Early on the morning of Oct. 12, David Mays woke up in…
Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break From Democracy
It wasn’t clear at first why Peter Thiel agreed to talk to…
The Future of Mental-Health Drugs Is Trip-Free Psychedelics
One of my chronically depressed patients recently found a psychoactive drug that…
Photos: WeHo’s Halloween Carnaval returns for the first time since the pandemic
They were all there. Elvis, Ken and Barbie, cowboys, you name it.…
The Israeli Crisis Is Testing Biden’s Core Foreign-Policy Claim
President Joe Biden’s core foreign-policy argument has been that his steady engagement…
Trump Said the ‘Wrong’ Thing on Abortion
Updated at 9:00 a.m. ET on September 22, 2023 A few weeks…
Millennials Have Lost Their Grip on Fashion
Ballet flats are back. Everyone’s saying it—Vogue, the TikTok girlies, The New…
A Politician Who Loved Being Courted
Every so often, someone asks me who my favorite politicians to write…
The Courtroom Is a Very Unhappy Place for Donald Trump
No one wants to appear before a judge as a criminal defendant.…
Magical Thinking in Milwaukee
One couldn’t help but pity the dutiful campaign staffers and surrogates who…