To make sense of Ron DeSantis, who trolls a liberal elite that has not faced its own failures, a former teammate reflects on their time playing baseball at Yale in the 1990s.
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What Might Finally Resolve the Hollywood Strikes
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention.
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A Slow Turn in Hip-Hop Redemption for Black Women
The sentencing of rapper Tory Lanez for shooting Megan Thee Stallion highlights decades of injustice.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Top Ten Things I’d Give Up for Free Health Care
Let’s make this trade.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Q&A: How Corporate Medicine Destroys Doctors
Wendy Dean, who co-authored a new book about moral injury in American medicine, says working in today’s health care system is ‘not the agreement that we thought we were making.’
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Atomic Frankenstein
‘Oppenheimer’ and the anguish of creative destruction
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Barbenheimer Reveals the Drastic Choices of Hollywood Executives
The big opening weekend contrasts with everything the studios have been doing for the last couple of decades.
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The Joy of Being a Girl
‘Barbie’ captures those thoughts that are difficult for women to express.
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Why ‘Oppenheimer’ Matters
The father of the atomic bomb still speaks to the danger of complacency.