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Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
The polar bear video has millions of views. Set to a haunting piano score that’s become ubiquitous on TikTok, it shows a lone bear swimming between increasingly distant ice floes. The comments section overflows with teenage grief, rage, and helplessness. Beside my laptop screen lies the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Same…
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For Tory Burch, a 20-year fashion career is a sport driven by endurance, discipline and grit
It’s 2 p.m. on a quintessentially balmy Los Angeles afternoon when I spot fashion designer Tory Burch in the lobby of the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel. She’s wearing oversize sunglasses, a crisp collared shirt, an even crisper pleated navy skirt and leopard-print pumps. I start walking over to introduce myself, but a fan gets there…
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CNN’s Scott Jennings torn into as right-wing podcaster loses it over Trump pandering
CNN chief Trump apologist Scott Jennings got a blistering tear-down for his pandering to the president — from a man who used to be the president’s biggest fan. Andrew Schulz, a pro-Donald Trump comedian and podcaster who hosted Donald Trump before the 2024 election, unloaded on CNN conservative commentator Jennings this week, mocking him for…
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These last months of school are an opportunity, not just a drag
Spring can be a dreadful time to be in school. The end of the year is in sight, but with weeks of mandatory work still to be done, daydreaming students are tempted by the miracle taking place outside to ditch their books and wish they were anywhere but the classroom. And their teachers wonder why…
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How to roll over your 401(k) to a gold IRA
Despite 401(k) gains, economic fears like the war in Iran and inflation are driving interest in gold IRAs. A gold IRA rollover lets workers move 401(k)s into physical gold, to avoid taxes and penalties. Rolling a 401(k) to gold SDIRA needs a firm, a custodian and a depository. Traditional 401(k)s have done well over the…
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‘Yellowstone’ spinoff ‘Dutton Ranch’ is a winner: review
Back in the saddle. Beth and Rip’s hotly anticipated “Yellowstone” spinoff show is here, “Dutton Ranch,” and after some growing pains in its muddled series premiere, it’s a winner. It’s not the most enticing show – it’s a crime-soaked cowboy soap opera with clunky writing – but that’s what “Yellowstone” was too, so it is…
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Trump surrendered to China before he even landed there
Ahead of President Trump’s arrival in Beijing on Wednesday for his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, longtime China expert Kurt M. Campbell offered a novel way of watching the two leaders’ high-stakes faceoff. Think of it not as nation-versus-nation or army-versus-army, but as the sort of “single combat” celebrated in ancient literature, along the…
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The real reason Americans hate the economy so much
Americans’ doom and despair about the economy is mounting. In fact, by one measure, the public is more depressed than they’ve ever been in the postwar era. The University of Michigan has been surveying American consumers’ sentiment since all the way back in 1952 — and their result from last month was the lowest level…
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Trump on verge of ‘largest single act of grand larceny in American history’: Congressman
Democrats in Congress are warning that President Donald Trump is on the verge of “stealing” billions of dollars from American taxpayers in the coming days as his Department of Justice reportedly considers settling his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the DOJ, headed by the Trump loyalist…
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The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote
Douglas Wilson has a modest proposal to improve American life: He wants to repeal the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the vote. In his ideal system, “we would do it in our politics the same way we do it in our church structure,” he told me recently. “And that is, we vote by household.” Wilson…