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Family
The longer I’m here, the more I love it
By Bridget Phetasy
Politics
He was always evenhanded in his critiques — he didn’t know how to do it any other way
By Ben Domenech
Internet
A new Twitter account was created in April 2023, using Loren Merchan’s old handle
By Jacqueline Sweet
Business
It’s been a boon for conservation
By Geoff Hill
‘Joe Biden is not known for his eloquence or rhetorical precision. But I am surprised more has not been made of his recent boast that more than 800 people had been arrested and jailed in connection with the FBI’s dragnet regarding that rambunctious fedsurrection. Imagine boasting that members of the other party had been jailed by your judicial system’
By Roger Kimball
Economics
Artificial intelligence will help tech giants get even bigger. What will it mean for their human employees?
By Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky
American credibility is said to be at stake in Ukraine. This is tragically true
By Daniel McCarthy
Treading a line between being the local authority figure and a sort of therapist
By Christopher Sandford
The qualities MPs look for in a leader are beginning to change
By Katy Balls
Police leadership emphasizes that they are not arresting their way out of crime
By Patrick Hauf
Book Review
Steve Coll’s title alludes to Homer, and his subject matter has the arc of Greek tragedy
By Clement Knox
Candida Moss invites readers to look beyond the Bible’s named authors and imagine their collaborators
By Daniel Rey
He is the classiest of class acts
By Peter Tonguette
Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea suggest a response to the new isolationism that is essential for understanding contemporary foreign policy debates on the right
Film
There are hints of substance, but they go unexplored
By Rich Cromwell
In Headshot, fighting is shown to be an essential part of what it is to be a girl, an undeniable, animal part of femininity
By Emily Rhodes
How to Win an Information War is an effort to counter prevailing narratives
By James Ball
When you give them to kids, you are feeding their minds with advertising
By Philip Womack
Paul Alexander wants to correct misrepresentations of the singer’s life
By Alison Kerr
‘Things that upset you are fuel to take you through a story’
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
And Finally
What St. Helena coffee has above all is the power of suggestion
By Jeremy Hildreth
Sports
Even as a player, Johan Cruyff experimented with the formula
By Sam McPhail
Life
My swollen chest looked like a 1981 Playboy centerfold caricature
By Birdie Hall
There’s always a friendly smile and a big hello from behind the bar
By Marisela Ramirez
Mine are for things undone, unmade, untold. They’re hardly earth-shattering, but still…
By Bill Kauffman
London Life
This little helpless creature had given existential meaning to my life. I owed it
By Cosmo Landesman
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