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The Doctor Won't See You Now

PATIENTS ARE GIVING UP ON A LOUSY SYSTEM. WHICH ONLY MAKES THINGS WORSE

Welcome to the new American Dream

THE CLASSIC LEATHER BOOT HAS HAD MANY NAMES over the years-lace-up, cowboy, congress, pale rider.

The D.C. Brief

ABORTION IS STILL AVAILABLE IN South Carolina until 22 weeks of pregnancy, but intense efforts are under way to limit access. Dozens of state lawmakers back a bill that would make people who get abortions subject to the death penalty and another that would ban the procedure after 12 weeks.

The Leadership Brief

SINCE TAKING OVER AS CEO OF THE Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last July, Bill Kramer has been putting out fires.

China's fraught plan to end the war in Ukraine

WITH ITS 12-POINT plan to end the war in Ukraine, China has taken a significant step toward center stage in international politics.

DEAR UKRAINIANS

You have been at war for a year now, and death must have touched virtually every family in your country.

On the front lines of the culture war over Black history

WHEN IT CAME TIME FOR EMMITT GLYNN TO TEACH the lesson on the Black Panthers in his AP African American Studies class, he says he was overcome with \"fear\" walking into his classroom at Baton Rouge Magnet High School on Feb. 17-fear that what happened in the room would be misconstrued by the outside world. The school has been fielding so many media requests about Glynn's class that administrators set up a day for the press to come see the curriculum in action.

Why are publishers rewriting classics?

ONLY DAYS AFTER A BRITISH PUBLISHER CAME UNDER fire for edits made to Roald Dahl's children's books, the Telegraph revealed Feb. 25 that James Bond was getting the same treatment. Just as Dahl's books would be adjusted to remove language that today's readers deem offensive, the estate of Bond author Ian Fleming has conducted a sensitivity review before an upcoming reissue of the spy novels.

Hollywood Movies Just Aren't as Sexy as They Used to Be. Blame Superheroes

Channing Tatum's stripper Magic Mike pulls on bookcases and beams in the Miami home of a wealthy woman played by Salma Hayek Pinault. Hayek Pinault's character looks confused, but if you've seen a Magic Mike movie, you know Mike is testing whether the furniture will hold up to his swinging and gyrating.

Apocalypse (possibly) now

It’s the end of the world. Or is it?

5 ways to find the right therapist for you

Research shows that people who have a good relationship with their therapist get the most out of therapy. "I tell friends that they should like talking to their therapist and feel like their therapist likes talking to them, because a strong relationship will generally lead to better outcomes," says Emily Maynard, a psychotherapist in California. But even after figuring out who's affordable and available, finding a provider who's the right fit for your personality and needs can take some work. Mental-health experts recommend casting a wide net, not getting discouraged, and taking advantage of the free 15-minute phone consultations that most practitioners offer to figure out if you'd like to work together. Here are five other things to reflect on when choosing a therapist.

The network comedy is Not Dead Yet

THE LATEST COMEDY TO JOIN ABC'S PRIME-TIME LINEUP tells what is, in many ways, a familiar story.

OLDER,WISER, WAY MORE FUN

Movies aimed at older women, like 80 for Brady, are often derided-but they belong to a time-honored genre

KEEPING AI IN CHECK

Why ChatGPT's creator is pro-regulation

THE QUANTUM LEAP

Quantum computing will transform our worldand create a 21st century \"space race\"

SHADOW NETWORK

Inside the clandestine effort to smuggle a free internet into Iran, one dish at a time

Death by American Brutality

THE BEATING OF TYRE NICHOLS IS HARD TO WATCH. BUT WE MUST BEAR WITNESS

Our Enduring Discontents - HOW TO UNDERSTAND AMERICA

How did our country arrive at this moment of rupture and fury? How is it that mass shootings, even of children in their classrooms, and police killings of unarmed citizens of color like Tyre Nichols have become a feature of our days?

David Beasley

The head of the World Food Programme worries about 2023

Sleepwalking into a less secure future

EARLY IN THE PANDEMIC, EXPERTS PROJECTED THAT the world economy could shrink by almost 10% in 2020. Yet what played out was a contraction of 3.1%—still a huge loss of output, but not nearly as dire.

The secret tax on women's time

WHEN STUDIES REVEALED THE SO-CALLED PINK TAX, showing in 2015 that personal hygiene products “for her” cost 13% more than similar products for men, it caused outrage and action.

CIVILIZATION OVER NATION

Israel is no longer a liberal democracy. As Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government took office on Dec. 29, its illiberalism was evident. No longer a matter for debate or polite embarrassment, the contempt for liberal ideas brings disparate factions together: against the media and intellectuals and increasingly against the old Western-inspired Israeli political system and constitution.

When science meets seafood

SANDHYA SRIRAM IS IMPATIENT. THE STEM-CELL scientist wanted to put her knowledge to use developing cultivated seafood, but no one was doing that in Singapore.

A snowless future foretold on Europe's tawny slopes

WHEN FELLOW SKIERS SENT AMADEO REALE PHOTOS OF churned mud and grassy slopes at their French and Swiss ski resorts in January, he shuddered in sympathy, but felt no sense of foreboding.

Why are groceries SO expensive right now?

BRIDGETTE MOORE, A 40-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF FIVE from Lake Park, Ga., has noticed that her family’s grocery bill is much higher these days—way over her $200 weekly budget.

TRUMP'S 2024 TEST

His first campaign stops reveal a candidate unsure of what his base wants

PREVENTABLE DEVASTATION

In Turkey, a pair of lethal earthquakes indicts a government

Why does the U.S. keep shooting down UFOs?

IN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF FEBRUARY, THE U.S. Air Force shot down four flying objects that had intruded on the skies over North America, a deployment of force unprecedented during peacetime.

Bolsonaro's surreal new life as a Florida man

A LITTLE MORE THAN A MONTH AGO, HE WAS LEADING the fifth largest country in the world.

His mission: changing how we think about racism

NOT LONG AFTER HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST WAS PUBLISHED in August 2019, the book’s author, the historian and National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi, found his work an unexpected touch point in the conversation about the persistence of racism in American society.