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The Donor

He’s been a central character in the story for as long as Chris and I have been telling it to the kids. “We had Emma’s egg but we didn’t have…

On Being a Stepparent

by Ellen Rosenbush,

In my mid-forties, I married a man who had joint custody of two children, both boys, from a previous marriage. The boys, Jed and Jason, were nineteen and fifteen. Not…

Fever

by Karl Taro Greenfeld,

My eleven-year-old daughter, Lola, is short for her age, wiry, and fast. Her body type and skill set are not ideally suited to basketball, yet this is the sport she…

In Praise of Boredom

by Claire Messud,

The world into which I was born no longer exists, of course. I’ve been around for almost half a century, so it was inevitable. My parents — one French, raised…

A Camera on Every Cop

by Mya Frazier,

Taser International cashes in on police misconduct

Old Poison, New Battles

by Randall Kennedy,

The ongoing struggle for voting rights

A Deeply Integrated Europe

by Emmanuel Todd, James K. Galbraith, Ulrike Guérot, John Gray, Christiane Lemke, Jeff Madrick,

The euro and its discontents

How Germany Reconquered Europe

by James K. Galbraith, Ulrike Guérot, John Gray, Christiane Lemke, Jeff Madrick, Emmanuel Todd,

The euro and its discontents

The Act of Art

by Charles Bukowski,

From a March 1961 letter sent by Charles Bukowski to Jon Webb, the editor of The Outsider and an early champion of Bukowski’s work. Bukowski (1920–94) was the author of…

The Work Cure for Women

by Lorna Jean King,

This vague put-upon feeling had been bothering me for some time, but only recently did I finally realize that I’m just one victim of a vast conspiracy. Chances are that…

Wrong Prescription?

by Trudy Lieberman,

The failed promise of the Affordable Care Act

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