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Abdul El-Sayed notches a win for the left in the Michigan Senate primary—and in the battle over the direction of the Democratic Party.
Harriet Clark's debut novel is in explicit conversation with Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping.' Remarkably, it stands up to the comparison.

Imitation of Life

J. D. Vance’s ‘Communion’ and Lena Dunham’s ‘Famesick’ are two sequels to splashy, confessional memoirs by millennial authors. Only one of them is fun to read.
The Catholic Church was made for this moment. Its intellectual tradition can make a forceful stand for human dignity as AI accelerates.
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Is our collective refusal to remember and grieve the deaths caused by the pandemic contributing to a rightward lurch in our politics?
The late Robert Coles spent years meeting subjects where they were, from the first integrated classrooms to migrant farms to the Appalachian mountains.
Russia’s war in Ukraine may go down in history as the beginning of a new era of industrial warfare—with AI-powered drones at the center.