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After Elon Musk made a public show of remedying an apparent error in DOGE’s massive cuts to foreign aid, the Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to…

A sudden and mysterious outbreak of communicable disease began recently in my apartment building in Manhattan. Three 7-year-olds, a boy and two girls, were sharing the elevator one day with…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Sarah Palin knew her audience. In 2013, during a speech at CPAC, the…

Karolina Heyne never thought she’d wear hair extensions. Not because she didn’t want to—she’d been tempted for years—but because she didn’t want to put extra stress on the hair she still…

If the United States learned any lesson from HIV, it should have been that negligence can be a death sentence. In the early 1980s, the virus’s ravages were treated as…