The High Cost of Bad Credit
Desperate to improve their ratings, Americans now spend billions on “credit repair” — but the industry often can’t deliver on its promises.
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CreditMike Belleme for The New York Times Tim Robinson and the Golden Age of Cringe Comedy
His sketch show, “I Think You Should Leave,” zeroes in on the panic-inducing feelings of living in a society where we can’t agree on the rules.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Lola Dupre The Man Who Turned the World on to the Genius of Fungi
A vast fungal web braids together life on Earth. Merlin Sheldrake wants to help us see it.
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My Siblings’ Inheritance Depends on Whom They Marry. Is That Wrong?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on conditions parents attach to their wills.
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Is It Wrong to Bring a Child Into Our Warming World?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on personal responsibility and climate change.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistThese Taquitos Are an All-Night Breakfast of Champions
Perfect in their simplicity, chorizo and egg taquitos can be whatever you want them to be, whenever you want them.
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CreditChris Simpson for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Pamela Duncan Silver. EatWhy Are the Language Police Obsessed With Vice Presidents?
They make countless public appearances that will be mostly ignored — unless there’s something to poke fun at.
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CreditIllustration by Mark Harris ScreenlandHer Symptoms Suggested Long Covid. But Was That Too Obvious?
Doctors make assumptions about a case — and those assumptions can sometimes cloud their judgment.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Ina Jang DiagnosisThe Immigrant Experience in a Danish Butter Cookie Tin
Ubiquitous in immigrant households, the cookie tin might be a more apt metaphor for our journeys than the melting pot.
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CreditIllustration by Simone Noronha Letter of Recommendation
Rae Armantrout’s poem appears, at first, to be a matter-of-fact proposition about human beings. Then it gets slippery.
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CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman PoemJudge John Hodgman on the Probability We’re Living in a Simulation
Co-workers do some armchair theorizing on statistics.
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