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Buckingham Palace said that Queen Elizabeth would not attend the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, where local residents have complained of a growing rat infestation. Read More
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Ad Astra

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The space between us: assessing the potential for conflict in space Read More
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A medical school in Japan discovered that it had mixed up plumbing and, for the past 30 years, had been serving toilet water for “drinking, washing hands, and gargl[ing].” Read More
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Good Mother

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On trauma, Native parenthood, and decolonizing journalism Read More
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“How do you oppose the Holocaust?” a Texas teacher asked an administrator who said that educators should consider “other perspectives” in lessons about the Shoah. Read More
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“The Fire Is for the Greedy”

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Heat and historical memory in Nawabshah, Pakistan Read More
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“Put on the Diamonds”

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On the act of eating one’s words (and worse): Vivian Gornick and Sigrid Nunez discuss the experience of humiliation Read More
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Six Minutes of Silence

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I would have preferred those few moments of silent reflection to be multiplied by ten, if only to encourage the political and media leadership to shut up and think about all the mistakes they made and all the nonsense they spewed in the two decades that followed. Read More
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A school in Belgium alerted parents that their children had been playing games they had seen on Squid Game and beating up the losers as a way to approximate killings in the show. Read More
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To Be a Field of Poppies

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Compost yourself: on the social, psychological, and ecological implications of rethinking what happens to our bodies after we die Read More
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It was announced that pieces of a bridge on which A. A. Milne, author of the Winnie the Pooh books, played with his son will go up for auction at the same house that sold 20 tons of the Berlin Wall. Read More
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A U.S. federal judge ordered Facebook to release records of all posts promoting violence against the Rohingya ethnic group that the company had previously declined to share because of privacy concerns. Read More
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The pope expressed confusion as to why some cardinals were refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Read More
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Bad News

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Nostalgia for something that never was: deconstructing the power of disinformation Read More
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The Good Old Boys

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On Grand Isle, Louisiana Read More
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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington denied responsibility for siccing six zebras on residents of the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Read More
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When the Raids Came

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A deeper view of life in Afghanistan during (and after) wartime Read More
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Major General Christopher Donahue was the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan, marking an end to the United States’ longest war, the cost of which lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee have mentioned only once since September 11, 2001. Read More
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Harvard University’s new chaplain is an atheist. Read More
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Seven Steps to Heaven

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The voice: on Jon Fosse’s Septology Read More
Publisher’s Note

Questions

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“Would Henri Alleg’s La question have been published—would it have seen the light of day—without Jérôme Lindon’s moral fortitude?“ Read More
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Sri Lanka’s president demoted the country’s health minister, who advocated for sorcery as a treatment for COVID-19. Read More
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Dozens of articles written by the co-founder of the fact-checking site Snopes were taken down after an investigation revealed that he had serially plagiarized BuzzFeed. Read More
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Men in Dark Times

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The banality of misreading Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism Read More
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The Fall of Baghdad

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The United States must decide who gets left behind Read More
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Three people were injured when an iceberg collapsed at Tennessee’s Titanic Museum Attraction. Read More
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Waterlog and Green Green Green

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Surf and turf: Leanne Shapton on Roger Deakin’s swimming memoir and Gillian Osborne on her wild essay collection Read More
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The Thai government banned frightening news. Read More
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Home Country

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False cognates: on the diversity and shared experiences within the Latino community Read More
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Researchers developed a test that can detect a type of brain tumor in urine. Read More
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