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Joel Rogers / Getty Against Skiing
This beloved winter pastime is not for everyone. And especially not for me.
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Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Christmas in Wartime
Remember Ukraine this year as Russia continues its homicidal campaign against the country.
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Kevin Mazur / Getty / Live Nation Why No Singer Has Replaced Lady Gaga
Spencer Kornhaber’s culture picks include BeReal, online comedy stars, and an irresistible Nigerian singer.
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John Shearer / Getty The Childish Drama of Elon Musk
Yet again, an important part of the public square is controlled by a narcissistic toddler.
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Brandon Bell / Getty Images What Fusion May Mean for a Carbon-Free Future
A tantalizing new scientific breakthrough will mean little if we don’t build the infrastructure to support it.
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L. Willinger / FPG / Hulton Archive / … How to Enjoy the Holidays Your Way
Faith Hill offers advice on creating new rituals, taking solitude breaks, and having actual fun.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Republicans Need a Reckoning
The party of Lincoln must end its embrace of sedition.
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Mensent Photography / Getty The Wild Future of Artificial Intelligence
“It’s going to be fascinating to see how people incorporate this second brain into their job,” Derek Thompson says.
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Mitchell Haaseth / Netflix The Most Moving Scene in Love Is Blind
Jenisha Watts’s culture picks include a dramatic reality-TV moment, Viola Davis, and the young-adult writer Jason Reynolds.
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Mark Peterson / Corbis / Getty We Need a Little Christmas (Music)
Let’s not fight this Christmas, unless it’s about what station to tune the radio to.
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Roy Rochlin / Getty Why the Far Right Is Fixated on Drag Queens
The ACLU’s Chase Strangio draws the connection between the global antidemocratic movement and rising anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and violence in the U.S.
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Mauro Pimentel / AFP / Getty Social Media Is for Strangers Now
As Instagram and Facebook fade from relevance, the connections between friends are fading online too.
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Win McNamee / Getty Herschel Walker Is the New Normal
Too many of us have simply gotten used to the corrosion of our public life.
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Space Frontiers / Hulton Archive / Getty How We Could Discover Alien Life
Space reporter Marina Koren on NASA’s plans to travel to the moon, Mars, and Europa—and why it is now studying UAPs
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Courtesy of HBO The Two Americas: The White Lotus Fans and Reacher Fans
David French’s culture picks include Amazon Prime as well as HBO Max hits, and a profoundly meaningful blockbuster art film.
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Anthony Kwan / Getty Change May Be Coming in China
Following nationwide protests, the Chinese government is undertaking a partial rollback of the zero-COVID policy, but the people there are far from free.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Why Did the Oath Keepers Do It?
What was the point of an insurrection that, in the end, was about nothing?
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty The State of Free Speech
Conor Friedersdorf on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and his hopes and fears for American freedom of expression
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Never Trump Means Never
Opposing Trumpism is about more than rejecting one man.
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Joe Raedle / Getty The Authoritarian Right Is Regrouping
In Moscow, Mar-a-Lago, and beyond, desperate men are mobilizing anyone they can to help them regain power.
