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Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis
The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.
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The Post-Campaign Campaign of Donald Trump
He has been president for more than a year — so why is he still holding rallies?
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Tracy K. Smith, America’s Poet Laureate, Is a Woman With a Mission
Can bringing poems to the masses be an antidote to our toxic civic culture?
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What Separates Ordinary Bad News From True ‘Disaster’?
It has little to do with lives lost or damage done — and everything to do with the stories we want to tell about ourselves.
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Cambridge Analytica and the Coming Data Bust
The scandal revealed just how much we’d come to trust Facebook — and clarified what the company is really capable of.
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CreditIllustration by Jon Han On TechnologyI Disapprove of School Vouchers. Can I Still Apply for Them?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on reconciling your belief in the value of public education with sending your own children to private school.
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It’s less a shopping experience than a way of mainlining late capitalism.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Jennifer Daniel. Source photographs, including models, from Getty Images. Letter of RecommendationHow to Make a Weeknight Grain Bowl That Is Actually Delicious
A functional meal can still be vibrant.
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The actress and Democratic candidate for New York governor on marijuana, the black vote and fixing the subway.
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New Sentences: From ‘Getting to Me,’ by Caroline Rose
There’s a strange feeling that comes from spending too much time alone.
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How to Carry Someone Who Is Unconscious
Do the pack-strap carry. But have a plan before the person becomes your cargo.
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