How cable news ruined Thanksgiving
By dealing in caricatures, they cause us to caricature each other. Then comes dinner
Why I (sort of) stopped using the word ‘woke’
Boomers and cable news hosts have drained it of all meaning
Celebrating holidays in a strange land
Plus: Tucker Carlson and that other new venture in liberal education
Fifty years ago, D.B. Cooper changed air travel forever
The authorities may not have brought Cooper to book, but they wasted little time in punishing the rest of us
The University of Austin: a meteor aimed at higher ed?
‘Liberal educators’ might sneer but they’re very worried
We aren’t serious about fighting climate change
People all over the world say they want action — from someone else
Kyle Rittenhouse takes on his QAnon lawyers
He tells Tucker that Lin Wood and John Pierce deliberately tried to keep him in jail
All hail President Kamala!
The nuclear football was in the hands of a woman for the first time ever on Friday
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Books and Arts
The life of René Magritte was even more surprising than his art
Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev reviewed
The unfamiliar Orwell: the writer as passionate gardener
Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit reviewed
From the magazine
How Kyrsten Sinema brought Gen X to the Senate
Wielding power doesn’t have to mean going with the herd
Netflix’s Chappelle of hate
Netflix received only a thousand or so complaints about a special watched by millions
Pregnant at the end of the world
Seeing that new life on the ultrasound gave me hope for the future — not dread
The doctor is mad
The American Medical Association has just issued a health equity guide
How Meghan Markle wins the White House
Welcome to Meghan’s world, where artifice, pop culture and politics march in lockstep
Can GETTR go the distance?
Without Trump, what does a platform that is essentially a clone of Twitter have to offer?
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