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[ad_1] For most of his life, Mitt Romney has nursed a morbid fascination with his own death, suspecting that it might assert itself one day suddenly...
[ad_1] Every so often, someone asks me who my favorite politicians to write about over the years have been. I always place Bill Richardson, the longtime...
[ad_1] No one wants to appear before a judge as a criminal defendant. But court is a particularly inhospitable place for Donald Trump, who conceptualizes the...
[ad_1] One couldn’t help but pity the dutiful campaign staffers and surrogates who trickled into the spin room in Milwaukee last night. They arrived with an...
[ad_1] I think I can speak for the collective when I say this week has felt long and arduous. I feel like I’ve used every last...
[ad_1] The FDA announced yesterday that it had for the first time approved a daily birth-control pill for over-the-counter sales. That’s a big change; once the...
[ad_1] A heat dome in Texas. Wildfire smoke polluting the air in the East and Midwest. The signs are everywhere that our children’s summers will look...
[ad_1] “Let’s travel now to moonlit valleys blanketed with heather,” Harry Styles says to me. The pop star’s voice—just shy of songful, velvet-dry—makes it seem as...
[ad_1] The nonexhaustive list of things women are told to avoid while pregnant includes cat litter, alfalfa sprouts, deli meat, runny egg yolks, pet hamsters, sushi,...
[ad_1] Depending on whom you ask in politics, the sudden advances in artificial intelligence will either transform American democracy for the better or bring about its...
[ad_1] As the government careens toward the brink of default without a deal to lift the debt limit, an unlikely source of reassurance has emerged. “I...
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[ad_1] The pandemic initiated a slew of transformations, and though many have not stuck, one indisputably has: Telehealth is booming in America. This golden age of...
[ad_1] The sanctuary buzzed as Mike Pence climbed into the elevated pulpit, standing 15 feet above the pews, a Celtic cross over his left shoulder. The...
[ad_1] Over the past week, my breakfast routine has been scrambled. I have had overnight oats, beans on sourdough, corned-beef hash and fried rice, and, on...
[ad_1] Max Hamilton found out that his roommate had been exposed to the coronavirus shortly after Thanksgiving. The dread set in, and then, so did her...
[ad_1] When I called the epidemiologist Denis Nash this week to discuss the country’s worsening COVID numbers, he was about to take a rapid test. “I...
[ad_1] A couple of weeks ago, a friend asked me how many COVID shots I’d gotten so far. And for a brief, wonderful moment, I forgot....
[ad_1] You never forget the first time a doctor gives up: when they tell you that they don’t know what to do—they have no further tests...
[ad_1] Mitch McConnell froze when a Capitol Police officer rushed into the Senate chamber carrying a semiautomatic weapon. The majority leader had been so engrossed in...