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Tradwife Dream vs. Reality
They're Martha Stewart meets MAGA. Tradwives-\"traditional wives\" are dominating social media with content promoting conservative values and a vision that women's sphere is in the home.
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May 29, 2026
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WHO IS THE REAL GRAHAM PLATNER?
An oyster farmer turned Maine Senate candidate's organizing-first strategy survives scandal and party resistance
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May 29, 2026
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The Empty Pulpit Problem
The U.S. isn't just running out of pastors, it is losing one of its most local forms of leadership.
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May 29, 2026
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American Expats Are Saying, 'Bye, Bye'
For a growing number of Americans overseas, citizenship is becoming more burden than benefit, shaped less by identity than by paperwork, taxes and red tape. Nearly 5,000 people formally renounced their citizenship in 2024, according to estimates compiled by immigration services firm Boundless, up from 2,426 in 2021. Many U.S. embassies now face lengthy backlogs.
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May 29, 2026
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When Fast Fashion's Copycat Economy Goes to Court
In a clash of the ultra-fast-fashion giants, Shein and Temu are battling in a London courtroom.
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May 29, 2026
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Status Update: Taking a Digital Detox
It's a question Silicon Valley might prefer we didn't ask-but it appears Gen Z is already wondering: Is social media past its peak?
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May 29, 2026
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CHUCK SCHUMER'S LAST STAND
A series of high-stakes primaries across four states is testing whether the Senate leader's playbook still works
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May 22, 2026
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What's In Store for the Future of Shopping?
The era of faceless shopping may be giving way to a return to something more tactile-and sociable.
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May 22, 2026
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KEEPING UP WITH THE TRUMPS
A Don Jr.-hosted Apprentice would be more than TV: it could convert the family name into a Kardashian-style commercial dynasty
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May 22, 2026
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ISLAND OF DESPAIR
The pageantry of Charles III's visit to the U.S. belies the reality of life in Britain, one mired by low growth, crumbling infrastructure and shrinking global influence
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May 22, 2026
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Euro Dream Risks Becoming an Economic Nightmare
Hungary's Prime Minister Peter Magyar wants to swap its currency, the forint, for the euro by 2030-a move aimed at repairing ties with the EU after 16 years under Viktor Orbán.
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May 22, 2026
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THE COST OF TOGETHERNESS
The structural flaw in the Gulf states' defense agreements with the U.S. left them open to Iran's wrath and the $100 billion bill that followed. They must not allow these arrangements to continue unchanged
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May 22, 2026
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LAURIE METCALF
The Tony and Emmy-winning actress reflects on her remarkable Broadway season, Death of a Salesman, co-star Nathan Lane and the enduring legacy of Roseanne's Aunt Jackie
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May 22, 2026
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Spirit Leaves the Runway
Flyers have come to expect hidden fees, canceled flights and winding TSA lines.
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May 22, 2026
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Let's Talk About Kevins
If you are reading this, there is a fair chance you know a Kevin. While no longer a fashionable name— just 196th for boys in the latest U.S. rankings-it still carries the residue of a certain American order: Little League, short-sleeved competence.
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May 22, 2026
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The Long and Short of TV's Fight for Your Attention
I Television has survived countless technological shocks, but the shrinking attention spans of audiences may pose a more existential test.
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May 22, 2026
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A COMEBACK FOR COZY CRIME
The annual Murder, She Wrote festival reveals how beloved mystery series offer structure and relief when real life feels unstable
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May 22, 2026
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VOTE OF CONFUSION
As Republicans push a sweeping election-law strategy through the courts and Congress, voting rules are shifting late in the cycle-raising the risk of disruption, mistrust and fresh legal chaos ahead of the midterms
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May 22, 2026
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CHILD OF CHERNOBYL
Forty years on from Ukraine's nuclear power plant disaster, one woman, whose father worked on Reactor No. 2, reflects on its life-changing impact
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May 22, 2026
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District 3 Sends a Message to Mamdani
City Council District 3 covers Manhattan's West Side, takes in the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots and has been represented by an openly gay council member since 1991.
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May 22, 2026
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Coming In From the Cold
Dozens of members of the Pussy Riot anti-Putin feminist protest group stormed Russia's space at the Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition on May 6—joined by Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN, who filled the Giardini venue with blue and yellow smoke.
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May 22, 2026
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The Competency Crisis
ONE OF THE THEMES OF LATE IN OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER has been what I've taken to calling the Competency Cri- sis. Think of the Competency Crisis as a kind of skele- ton key to understand this bizarre moment in American politics. Everything seems downstream of the fact that no one seems to know how to do their jobs—or any job—anymore.
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May 22, 2026
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IS THAT JOKE EVEN FUNNY ANYMORE?
Satirical website The Onion's fight to gain control of Infowars may have noble intentions but, in the age of disinformation, could it do more harm than good?
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May 22, 2026
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CONVENTIONAL WISDOM Adjourned
American institutions have developed a go-to technique for resolving difficult problems: just declare them over.
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May 22, 2026
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LINES OF POWER
Tennessee state Representative Justin J. Pearson marches with protesters outside the state Capitol in Nashville on May 5, as the Republican-led legislature convenes a governor-called special session to redraw the state's congressional districts.
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May 22, 2026
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Hidden Strengths of Transferable Skills
When Japan's elder care homes began hiring retired sumo wrestlers, MMA fighters and bodybuilders, it sounded like a punch line.
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May 22, 2026
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A Case of Medical Whiplash
A fast-moving court fight over mifepristone has turned a familiar prescription into a legal fault line and revealed how far the shock waves from the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision travel beyond abortion care.
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May 22, 2026
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THE BENEFITS OF A GUIDING HAND
Well-designed Al governance does not suppress innovation—it shapes its direction in socially beneficial ways
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May 08-15, 2026
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Maternity Hospitals & Fertility Clinics 2026
Newsweek and Statista highlight the fertility clinics and maternity hospitals combining advanced innovation with compassionate care to support families at every step of building a healthy future
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May 08-15, 2026
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Apple's New CEO May Return to Company's Core
As Apple says goodbye to CEO Tim Cook (below, right, affectionately known as Tim Apple by President Donald Trump), its senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus, is stepping up at a crucial time.
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