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We live in an age in which audiences simply reject a filmmaker's explanation of what happens in his movie.
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Christmas isn't always merry. Here's how to deal with grief over the holidays.
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The left has found the perfect medium for its message.
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A Frenchman's ode to this quintessential American holiday.
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The generation charmingly called "America's neglected middle child" could save Washington ... if we hurry.
Nothing builds social cohesion like a call for shared sacrifice.
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October is the best month of the year. If you disagree, you are wrong.
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The Second Amendment isn't here to defend gun-right absolutists.
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Baseball teams aren't even battling for wild card spots anymore. That's a problem.
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Canada has constructed a workable liberal nationalism in the age of mass-migration and populist backlash. Can America learn from it?
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There's a season for everything, so chill out with those pumpkins.
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It's the poor who will suffer most when bus travel is neglected.
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This episode is dedicated to all the insomniacs out there. That inky swamp of panic you live in? Banished by Kelsey Grammer's soothing voice and plush neuroses.
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During the Great Depression, the government created thousands of jobs for the unemployed. James Pethokoukis explains why that would never work today.
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How Trump exposes a dangerous problem at the heart of American government.
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Stressing out over paperwork is one of the signature features of modern life. Sometimes it's necessary — like when you're buying a car. But a lot of it, especially anything connected with government programs, could easily be avoided.
Just 36 percent of Americans have a passport, and I get it — some people, just don’t care for traveling. But for those like me, who want to cross places off their to-do list and just need a little push, we need to ignore that feeling of hesitation and go for it.
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Every birth is a miracle. Every child is made beautifully in the image of God. It's as simple as that.
There's a very good reason nearly half of American colonists didn't take sides during the Revolutionary War.
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We need to stop glorifying this form of birth control and instead help women get better access to reproductive health care.
If you're at all concerned with what your lawmakers are doing on Capitol Hill, C-SPAN should be your lifeblood.
In light of the Paris (dis)agreement, Ryan Cooper resurrects a bold solution to combat America's catastrophic global warming — wage war on climate change.
Since 1911, the country has added more than 200 million citizens to its population, and yet the size of the House of Representatives has stayed relatively fixed. Today, each House member represents, on average, more than 700,000 citizens. It's time for this to change.
I've been to Disneyland more than 20 times since the presidential election last Novmeber. And, through the cotton-candy haze, I have formed a theory to answer for my obsession — one that I think extrapolates to a broader American problem.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the film is far more politically radical than you remember
How does she do it? Let's examine cool girling, ice queening, and more of Conway's go-to strategies.
In the second and final part of our two-part podcast series on the health-care maze, national correspondent Ryan Cooper shares lessons from a feel-good story about health insurance. For more, visit theweek.com/podcasts.
In the first of a two-part series, The Week's national correspondent Ryan Cooper shares a harrowing allegory of America's hideously complicated health-care system: Matthew Stewart thought he had good insurance. Then he started vomiting blood. For more, visit theweek.com/podcasts
We spend much of our lives trying to flee the inescapable fact of our own finitude — and it's much easier to do so amid a swarm of buzzing distractions
The definition of "power" in America today is best encapsulated by a sentence written 70 years ago
Here's why the Trump White House can't just create an alternate universe in which everything he does is a success.
How the series keeps dutifully confessing it has a woman problem — without ever quite fixing it
The decline of the American neighborhood has inhibited our ability to instill self-reliance in our children
He accepts the things he cannot change, and tries to change the things he believes he can
If, according to science, awe is good for your health, then you really need some Planet Earth in your life.
Let's not give up on home-cooked meals; let's just ditch the many factors that make them a pain.
You need to stop making these noises — From "shhh" to uptalk — even if you don't realize it.
One of religion's main appeals is its claim to a coherent account of the universe. But that might be too simplistic for our pluralistic age.
Presidents have a habit of promising to bring Democrats and Republicans together. They try and they fail. But we shouldn't expect them to succeed, because it isn't their job.
Make no mistake: Donald Trump is a boorish, megalomaniacal ignoramus sporting the worst bouffant in the Western hemisphere. But he also represents something rare: truth in advertising.
Jessica Fletcher is not just the star of your grandmother's favorite show. She is a phenomenon.
I'm a progressive millennial feminist — and no, I'm still not ready for Hillary the Hawk
The 2016 race has seen a flood of ghostwriters and speechwriters peeking out from behind the curtain to remind us of their existence — and that these are not your politician's words
Autonomous robots might sound scary, but in the future, they could actually prevent a lot of unnecessary deaths
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