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Will Migration From Blue States to Red States Give the GOP a Boost in the Electoral College? Not Necessarily.

Carbon removal project supports Maine’s blue economy, broader marine health

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Malala Yousafzai: What I Got Wrong About Changing the World

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Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection

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An English professor burns the midnight oil talking to Microsoft Copilot about Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and a play he’s been working on—and comes away deeply impressed by its literary insights

Rupe Debate: Judging the Supreme Court's Emergency Docket

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves

The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

Ghosts, Love, And The Search For Readers, Part 2: A Continuing Conversation With Writer Kipling Knox

Is Love Addictive? Many Say Yes, and It’s Changing Our Idea of Romance

Brickbat: No Right To Know

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Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World