Sexy Nurse
As she takes your blood pressure, you casually ask her whether the new centrist government will be able to sustain broad support among an increasingly populist electorate. Her eyes flash with delight, and you spend the next three minutes chatting knowledgeably—but not obnoxiously—about the challenges facing emerging European democracies in the shadow of Russian aggression. When it’s time to summon the doctor, she lingers in the doorway for a moment, nibbling her lip seductively, and says, “You are quite well informed.” And it’s true. You are.
Forbidden Layover
You are standing at the United Airlines counter at O’Hare, having just learned that your flight is delayed three hours. The agent taps on his keyboard. He’s six-three and distractingly handsome—green-eyed, olive-skinned, and bearing an uncanny resemblance to that bad-boy tennis player, Nick something. You explain why you need to get home today: it’s your night to pick up your daughter from gymnastics, and your dog has some weird diarrhea thing but your wife can’t take him to the vet because she has back-to-back Zooms with clients in Malaysia. The agent nods with genuine sympathy and says that although he can’t rebook you, perhaps a pass to the first-class lounge might make up for the inconvenience?
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GET IT TOGETHER
In the beginning was the mob, and the mob was bad. In Gibbon’s 1776 “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” the Roman mob makes regular appearances, usually at the instigation of a demagogue, loudly demanding to be placated with free food and entertainment (“bread and circuses”), and, though they don’t get to rule, they sometimes get to choose who will.
GAINING CONTROL
The frenemies who fought to bring contraception to this country.
REBELS WITH A CAUSE
In the new FX/Hulu series “Say Nothing,” life as an armed revolutionary during the Troubles has—at least at first—an air of glamour.
AGAINST THE CURRENT
\"Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!,\" at Soho Rep, and \"Gatz,\" at the Public.
METAMORPHOSIS
The director Marielle Heller explores the feral side of child rearing.
THE BIG SPIN
A district attorney's office investigates how its prosecutors picked death-penalty juries.
THIS ELECTION JUST PROVES WHAT I ALREADY BELIEVED
I hate to say I told you so, but here we are. Kamala Harris’s loss will go down in history as a catastrophe that could have easily been avoided if more people had thought whatever I happen to think.
HOLD YOUR TONGUE
Can the world's most populous country protect its languages?
A LONG WAY HOME
Ordinarily, I hate staying at someone's house, but when Hugh and I visited his friend Mary in Maine we had no other choice.
YULE RULES
“Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point.”