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A Studying Record

The Individuals Who Stop Relationship

Being single might be exhausting—however the seek for love could also be more durable.

By Religion Hill

Trump’s Lie Is One other Take a look at for Christian America

If we’re prepared to see kids terrorized due to a false rumor about Haitian immigrants, we should always ask who kidnapped our conscience, not somebody’s pet.

By Russell Moore

Hypocrisy, Spinelessness, and the Triumph of Donald Trump

He mentioned Republican politicians could be straightforward to interrupt. He was proper.

By Mark Leibovich

The Insurrectionists Subsequent Door

Ashli Babbitt’s mom and the spouse of a infamous January 6 rioter are on the middle of a brand new mythology on the correct. They’re additionally my neighbors.

By Hanna Rosin

The Actual Purpose Individuals Aren’t Having Children

It’s a necessity that authorities subsidies and higher household coverage can’t essentially tackle.

By Christine Emba

Why Mike Lee Folded

In 2016, he tried to cease Trump from changing into president. By 2020, he was making an attempt to assist Trump overturn the election. Now he may turn into Trump’s lawyer normal.

By Tim Alberta


The Week Forward

  1. No person Needs This, a romantic-comedy sequence starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody concerning the relationship between an agnostic lady and a rabbi (premieres on Netflix on Thursday)
  2. Thoughts Video games, an illustrated e book about John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s transformation in New York (on sale Tuesday)
  3. Megalopolis, a science-fiction epic written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola (in theaters Friday)

Essay

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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Sources: KitchenAid; Getty.

A $700 Kitchen Software That’s Meant to Be Seen, Not Used

By Ellen Cushing

Wooden, I don’t suppose I must work too exhausting to persuade you, is a reasonably wonderful substance. It grows out of the bottom after which turns into among the most necessary issues on the earth: pencils, baseball bats, clogs, porch swings, campfires, crucifixes, tall cabinets crammed with books (that are additionally wooden, for those who squint a bit of). Solomon’s temple was wooden; so was the Mayflower. So have been Kane’s Rosebud and Prince’s guitar. As constructing supplies go, wooden’s durability-to-weight ratio is mainly unmatched, due to the lengthy, skinny, hardy cell construction that helps timber face up to excessive climate situations.

Wooden does, nonetheless, have its limitations, and lots of of them are discovered within the kitchen.

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The Red Bull Cliff Diving athlete Catalin Preda, of Romania, dives from the 27-meter platform during a training session on September 14, 2024, in Tyrol, Austria.
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