August 7, 2023, The Atlantic. I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.
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June 6, 2022, The Atlantic. Steve Bannon is still scheming. And he's still a threat to democracy.
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August 9, 2021 The Atlantic: Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family's search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.
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February 9, 2022, The Atlantic. The Older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them.
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Feb 24, 2021, New York Times column. Pandemic life has made us feel more insecure about the aspects of parenting we were already most insecure about.
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Feb 7, 2021 New York Times column She's the latest descendant in a lineage of Republican women who embrace a boffo radicalism.
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January 19, 2021 New York Times column, The judgment of history will be damning.
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January 10, 2021 New York Times column. An ending as terrible as it was predictable engulfs the president and the country.
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Nov. 24, 2020, New York Times Philip Brickman was an expert in the psychology of happiness, but he couldn't make his own pain go away. Anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2021.
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November 6, 2020 New York Times column. : It's not too late to end up on the right side of history.
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/October 30, 2020 New York Times column What we have lost
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"Meet Joe Biden, the Wild Stallion"→
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August 15, 2020 New York Times (long form). He's not out on the campaign trail now, but when he was a young man in a hurry, he told us who he was.
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June 28, 2020 New York Times column Gingrich wrote the playbook for it all. The nastiness, the contempt for norms, the transformation of political opponents into enemies.
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June 21, 2020 New York Times column Beware a despot when he's cornered.
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June 14, 2020 New York Times Column. Let's Talk About It: For starters, don't do it on Zoom. And consider not doing it at all.
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May 24, 2020 New York Times column. We're homemakers, stay-at-home parents, and paid workers. All at the same time.
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May 17, 2020 New York Times column. Your workplace shaped your identity in ways you never knew.
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May 3, 2020 New York Times column. Physicians are perfectionists who suffer in silence
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April 26 2020, New York Times column. This country is going to need its Eeyores.
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