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Trump Wants You to Think Resistance Is Futile. It Is Not.

admin25 April 2025

The American constitutional system is built on the theory that the self-interest of lawmakers can be as much of a defense against tyranny as any given law or institution. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, “The provision for defense must in ...

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How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart

admin25 April 2025

Last November, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the second- or third-best player on the third- or fourth-best team in the sixth- or seventh-best conference in women’s college volleyball took the court in Las Vegas. She was the center of attention ...

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Lawyer Up? Increasingly, Americans Won’t, or Can’t.

admin25 April 2025

Janae Gossel had been questioning the witness for about 90 seconds when the judge began to show signs of exasperation. Listen to this article, read by Robert Fass Listen · 28:48 min“If you ask a question, let him answer the question,” said Joseph ...

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Why the White House Started Making Deportation Cartoons

admin25 April 2025

The Trump administration hasn’t yet delivered huge deportation numbers — but it is using the internet to provide regular deportation spectacles.

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5 Takeaways From New Research About A.D.H.D.

admin25 April 2025

Scientists who study the condition are wrestling with some fundamental questions about the way we define and treat it.

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What Happened to the Francis Revolution?

admin25 April 2025

How will history judge Pope Francis’ legacy? It seems reasonable to predict that for many progressive Catholics and others who hoped he would prove to be a revolutionary, his papacy will be remembered as a disappointment. Although Francis ...

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My Son Has a Rare Syndrome. So I Turned to the Internet.

admin25 April 2025

I did not know that anything was unusual until I was seven months pregnant. Inside the exam room, the technician dimmed the lights and stood astride her mysterious station. She worked her probe into the hard rind of my belly and offered selections ...

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Can We Ask a Disabled Woman to Leave Our Pickleball Group?

admin25 April 2025

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to exclude a player who can’t keep up.

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The Techno-Utopians Who Want to Colonize the Sea

admin25 April 2025

Forty-six hours before Rüdiger Koch officially seized the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent living in an underwater fixed habitat, I took a 15-minute motorboat ride from Linton Bay Marina, in north-central Panama, to visit him. It was ...

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Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?

admin25 April 2025

With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

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