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 News broke today that Trump has convened the so-called "God Squad" of executive branch officials to grant an exemption from the ...

 Last night, an ad played for fifteen seconds at the start of a YouTube video—and I'm still kicking myself for letting it play to the en...

 Here's the thing about living with a loved one with terminal illness. They are still alive. You can wake up every morning and see them....

 In an essay on Emily Dickinson, collected in his Required Writing , Philip Larkin refers in passing to "the psychologists' asserti...

 I've never been a good barfer. I can count on one hand the number of times in my conscious (post–five year life old) life when I've...

  Jesus Christ! That was all I could think to say to myself, when I read the AP story this morning about Pete Hegseth's latest blood-cu...

 In the long weeks when Trump was telegraphing his coming Iran war, I argued against the idea of bombing another country on moral grounds. I...