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The Claudine Gay Debacle Was Never About Merit

Claudine Gay’s resignation this week as Harvard University’s president marks the end of a shameful chapter for the institution. The…

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What’s ‘In’ for 2024? In-and-Out Lists, Apparently.

In the final days of 2023, social media was overrun with tongue-in-cheek predictions for the year ahead from regular people…

World

The Persecution of Harvard’s Claudine Gay

Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard who announced her resignation on Tuesday after her problematic congressional testimony about antisemitism and…

Health

Covid Has Resurged, but Scientists See a Diminished Threat

Hospitalizations have ticked upward, and there are at least 1,200 Covid deaths each week. Americans should wear masks more often…

Magazine

I Just Learned My Son Is a Webcam Model. Should I Be Troubled?

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on a sensational side gig — and the shame associated with sex work.

Magazine

Want a New You in the New Year? Try Committing to the Bit.

Personalities are cool. Personas are cooler.

World

Requiem for a Winterless Europe

Long before I knew his name, I knew Hendrick Avercamp’s paintings. They show a merry Christmassy world of funnily dressed…

World

The End of Snow

Every Christmas my husband and I pack up ourselves and our now 8-year-old and leave Brooklyn for a visit to…

World

How Do You Respond to a Young Person Upset by Racist Jokes at School?

When you talk to students about social media radicalization, racism and bullying, you learn how desperate they are for some…

World

Is America on the Mend?

Almost four years have passed since Covid-19 struck. In America, the pandemic killed well over a million people and left…

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