In her new Netflix show, Lena Dunham revitalizes the genre by delving into her characters’ pre-meet-cute pasts—and all the ...

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I’d recently been on a perfume jag, wreathing myself in enticing scents from au-courant brands, but I liked this fragrance ...

Solar energy is powering more of our lives, but the Earth keeps getting hotter—and we’re nearing what has been called a ...

The writer recommends four books about the nuances of family life.

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Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—and some still do, even as that grim ...

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

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Discussions about politics and more.“Yarvin is spot-on that most of us take democracy for granted,” says the staff writer Ava Kofman. “And there is a profound inability, particularly, I ...

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