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World
Why Some Parents Give Their Children a Last Name Other Than the Father’s
Some American parents have been breaking the patrilineal tradition for generations, but the number who do so remains small.
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Books
Helping a Child Navigate Grief? Open a Picture Book.
“But where did he go?” “Can she see us?” “Why didn’t Pop bring his glasses?” Kids have questions about death,…
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News
Can Hope Ever Be a Form of Medicine?
Of all the ways the body can go wrong, A.L.S. is one of the most frightening. It begins subtly —…
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Books
Fantasia Barrino-Taylor on the Pain (and Joy) of ‘The Color Purple’
Throughout the six months of production on the new film adaptation of “The Color Purple,” Fantasia Barrino-Taylor, who plays the…
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World
He Was Ready to Die, but Not to Surrender
How a Ukrainian soldier escaped from the embattled Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol and sneaked 125 miles to Ukrainian territory.
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News
A Forgotten Chapter of Abortion History Repeats Itself
Much of the country no doubt watched in amazement last week as a woman with a doomed pregnancy was forced…
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News
Our Semicolons, Ourselves
When I go through students’ papers and flag the misplaced modifiers, note the clichés or explain that a 15-sentence paragraph…
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News
J.G.A. Pocock, Historian Who Argued for Historical Context, Dies at 99
He helped forge a movement asserting that scholars must put aside their modern-day assumptions and prejudices to fully understand how…
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News
Oprah Proves Diet Culture Spares No One
I can’t tell you where I put my car keys or what I had for breakfast three days ago, but…
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Style
Can I Level With My Kids About Santa Claus?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to tell young children the truth about Christmas myths.