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Gray Matter Suicides Have Increased. Is This an Existential Crisis? Sometimes people kill themselves because their lives lack meaning. By CLAY ROUTLEDGE
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Single at 38? Have That Baby The hardest thing about parenting alone isn’t doing it but deciding to do it. By EMMA BROCKES
Op-Ed Columnist #MeToo Comes for the Archbishop A predator “everyone” knew about, whose victims were his own priests. By ROSS DOUTHAT
The Littlest Don Quixotes Versus the World No matter their story and immigration status, Hispanic children are taught to feel shame and guilt. By VALERIA LUISELLI
Op-Ed Columnist Ivanka and Vodka, on the Rocks Dear Ivanka: You can’t be a champion of women and children if you don’t champion women and children. By MAUREEN DOWD
A Prophet of Doom Was Right About the Climate Thirty years after a NASA scientist warned Congress the planet was warming, lawmakers have taken no action remotely commensurate with the threat. By JUSTIN GILLIS
The Snake Oil of the Second-Act Industry How much would you pay to reinvent your life? By ALISSA QUART
There’s a Better, Cheaper Way to Handle Immigration Someone, please tell the president: There are humane, effective alternatives to his brutal policies. And they cost less, too. By SONIA NAZARIO
The Last of the Tiger Parents My daughters might someday bring home grades that my father would have regarded as failures. If so, I embrace the decline. By RYAN PARK
Contributing Op-Ed Writer Why Mexico Is Swinging Left The presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is offering struggling people hope. By IOAN GRILLO
What 7 Creepy Patents Reveal About Facebook A review of the company’s patents indicates Facebook’s commitment to collecting and exploiting detailed personal information. By SAHIL CHINOY
The Prince Who Would Remake the World In Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia, women will take the wheel. How much is really changing? By ROGER COHEN
No, Not All Women Are Democrats Assuming that women are all focused on the same issues or will vote alike ignores recent political history. By S.E. CUPP
Opinion Stop Pretending Black Midwesterners Don’t Exist So much Trump-era political and cultural analysis completely ignores us. By TAMARA WINFREY-HARRIS
Exposures There Are Good Men Out There A photographer spends time with dads who approach parenthood differently from how their fathers did. By ELIZABETH DALZIEL
The Best Book for 2018 Is 25 Years Old Everyone should read “Stone Butch Blues.” By KAITLYN GREENIDGE
Gray Matter Suicides Have Increased. Is This an Existential Crisis? Sometimes people kill themselves because their lives lack meaning. By CLAY ROUTLEDGE
How the G.O.P. Built Donald Trump’s Cages The cruel practice of separating families at the border started under President Trump. But his fellow Republicans paved the way. By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Wrap Your Mind Around a Whale Why whales got so big, and what that tells us about evolution. By NICK PYENSON
Single at 38? Have That Baby The hardest thing about parenting alone isn’t doing it but deciding to do it. By EMMA BROCKES
Op-Ed Columnist #MeToo Comes for the Archbishop A predator “everyone” knew about, whose victims were his own priests. By ROSS DOUTHAT
The Littlest Don Quixotes Versus the World No matter their story and immigration status, Hispanic children are taught to feel shame and guilt. By VALERIA LUISELLI
Op-Ed Columnist Ivanka and Vodka, on the Rocks Dear Ivanka: You can’t be a champion of women and children if you don’t champion women and children. By MAUREEN DOWD
A Prophet of Doom Was Right About the Climate Thirty years after a NASA scientist warned Congress the planet was warming, lawmakers have taken no action remotely commensurate with the threat. By JUSTIN GILLIS
The Snake Oil of the Second-Act Industry How much would you pay to reinvent your life? By ALISSA QUART
There’s a Better, Cheaper Way to Handle Immigration Someone, please tell the president: There are humane, effective alternatives to his brutal policies. And they cost less, too. By SONIA NAZARIO
The Last of the Tiger Parents My daughters might someday bring home grades that my father would have regarded as failures. If so, I embrace the decline. By RYAN PARK
Contributing Op-Ed Writer Why Mexico Is Swinging Left The presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is offering struggling people hope. By IOAN GRILLO
What 7 Creepy Patents Reveal About Facebook A review of the company’s patents indicates Facebook’s commitment to collecting and exploiting detailed personal information. By SAHIL CHINOY
The Prince Who Would Remake the World In Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia, women will take the wheel. How much is really changing? By ROGER COHEN
No, Not All Women Are Democrats Assuming that women are all focused on the same issues or will vote alike ignores recent political history. By S.E. CUPP
Opinion Stop Pretending Black Midwesterners Don’t Exist So much Trump-era political and cultural analysis completely ignores us. By TAMARA WINFREY-HARRIS
Exposures There Are Good Men Out There A photographer spends time with dads who approach parenthood differently from how their fathers did. By ELIZABETH DALZIEL