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Confessions of a Pop-Tarts Taste Tester

When my family was enlisted nearly 60 years ago, little did we suspect that the pastry would become a pop-culture…

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Trump Escalates Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric With ‘Poisoning the Blood’ Comment

When asked about immigration in a recent interview, the former president used language with echoes of white supremacy and Hitler.

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North Carolina Radio Station Won’t Ban Met Opera Broadcasts After All

The station, which had called the Met’s newer operas unsuitable because of their “difficult music” and “adult themes and harsh…

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The Upside of a Population Decline

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Down With Efficiency! (When We Get Around to It.)

We are no longer achieving an acceptable level of whimsy. In even the smallest corners of daily life, we are…

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How Gerontocracy Explains the Matt Gaetz Clown Show

You can analyze the circus in the House of Representatives in terms of personalities (the bland ambition of Kevin McCarthy…

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Creating ‘Fair and Appropriate Testing’

More from our inbox: Sorry Not Sorry: The Truth About ApologiesBiden’s HubrisTV and the BoomersCredit...Pete GamlenTo the Editor: Re “Timed…

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MAGA Wouldn’t Be Such a Threat if the Electoral System Worked

Last week, President Biden gave a wide-ranging interview to John Harwood of ProPublica that touched on his presidency, the Republican…

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Power of Older Women? Extinct G.O.P. Moderates? It’s Time for the Mailbag.

We’re answering reader questions on polling and elections, including the underexplored area of longevity.

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‘Before Leaving Town, We Stopped to Get Sandwiches to Eat in the Car’

Saving a spot in a long line, pulling weeds in Brooklyn and more reader tales of New York City in…

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