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Photo by Craig Marolf Few trends have been worse for the environment than the dramatic growth of the SUV market in recent decades. Between 2010 and 2020, 65 million new SUVs hit the roads in America.

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Photo: Artwork by Ayatgali Tuleubek In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-f

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The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, believe it or not, Robert Caro is to blame. Illustration b

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I n two essays, “Illness as Metaphor” in 1978 and “AIDS and Its Metaphors” in 1988, the critic Susan Sontag observed that you can learn a lot about a society from the metaphors it uses to describe dis

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