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Answering Alternative Facts with Fiction
There is a sense, this week, with Trump’s shifting stories on his payout to Stormy Daniels, of a crescendo in the administration’s run of obvious falsehoods. What’s striking ...
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Culture 1
Shoveling Dirt On ritual and grief at a Jewish funeral
Paul is in a coma, said the person calling. The doctors think this is the end. His wife Jenni wants you to come. She wants everyone there around ...
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Culture 5
Born Here, Freed Here
“I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia . . . My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, ...
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Culture 0
Making Peace with Pepperoni: A Muslim-American Perspective
As Muslim-Americans, we need to play a more active role in defining our faith, or will continue to have others define it for us The tantalizing smell of ...
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Ideas 2
Going Back to Denmark: Landscape and Memory
1. Denmark has a sense of smallness, of boundedness. That was my initial impression as an American returning to a childhood home after forty years. The country consists ...
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Meeting President Obama: A Farewell to Representation
This article is being published in collaboration with the Kennedy School Review. One day last fall, at a small campus in the heart of New England, I stood ...
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Dismantling Communication—Literally
A friend was telling me about a particularly awkward experience recently—which I will not share here, except to remind you that coffee is indeed a diuretic—when she happened ...
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Culture 2
Love in a Cup
“I’ll have a chai,” I say. “You mean a chai tea latte?” my barista asks. There is a long, uncomfortable pause that she doesn’t seem to notice. “Fine,” ...
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Craft and Career 0
Speak Up, I’m Eavesdropping
I put it off as long as I could. Covered up, as people do; smiled and nodded. Finally I gave in and went to an audiologist. She sat ...
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Counterpose 0
The Fatwa on Chess
Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, last week put a fatwa on chess in advance of a tournament scheduled to be held in the ...
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Aphorisms for a Lonely Planet
It is easier to photosynthesize than to say I’m sorry. What we lack possesses us. A side of sad gives joy its curious twang. To go far enough ...
