‘We Ignore Our Own Sins at Our Peril’

The Autocrats Are Winning Dictators have joined forces to advance their nefarious interests and undermine liberal democracy around the world, Anne Applebaum argued in December. Excellent article detailing how the world is changing and we are not paying close-enough attention. Every member of Congress should get a copy in the …

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What Nancy Meyers Understands About Love After Age 50

To some people, Valentine’s Day encourages the notion that there is a blueprint for experiencing love—a pink greeting card, an appreciation post on Instagram, or a prix-fixe dinner. I find this notion stifling. To me, the holiday should instead provide an opportunity to rethink the rote role of romantic love …

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The Next Pandemic Could Start With a Terrorist Attack

In 1770, the German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele performed an experiment and noticed that he’d created a noxious gas. He named it “dephlogisticated muriatic acid.” We know it today as chlorine. Two centuries later, another German chemist, Fritz Haber, invented a process to synthesize and mass-produce ammonia, which revolutionized agriculture …

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