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Forget Trump’s “Meltdown”—Follow the Testimony
On a week of revelations in the House’s impeachment inquiry.
Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All Dilemma
After Warren began appearing near the top in Democratic-primary polls, several of her fellow-candidates began questioning her honesty on health care.
“The Lighthouse” Is Salted with Madness
Its monologues swaying between aria and rant, Robert Eggers’s whirlpool of a film is so crammed with oddities that it is hard to hold fast.
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William Barr’s Wild Misreading of the First Amendment
Historically illiterate, morally obtuse, and willfully misleading, a recent speech by the Attorney General portrays religious people in the United States as beset by a hostile band of “secularists.”
Golden Diner Updates the Greasy-Spoon Tradition
On the Lower East Side, the Momofuku Ko alum Samuel Yoo adds distinctive details to classic dishes like grilled cheese and pancakes—and the coffee refills are free.
Deepak Chopra Has Never Been Sick
In his latest book, “Metahuman,” the doctor and self-help guru touches on some of his signature themes: that science can obscure our potential for self-awareness, and that self-improvement can “move creation itself.”
A Novel Gives Voice to the Laws of Language
Cathleen Schine’s novel personifies the conflict between the prescriptivist, who follows rules to the letter, and the descriptivist, who, rules be damned, strives to make the written word more closely match its meaning.
Motherhood Meets Lust in “Die, My Love,” by Ariana Harwicz
In her début novel, the author explores the depiction of motherhood as a trap—of having one’s self subsumed by another human’s needs.
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Potent drink painted by Van Gogh, Degas, and Manet: eight letters.
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