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Southwest’s plus-sized passenger policy debated on social media

Southwest Airlines is being praised by some TikTok influencers for its “customer of size” seating policy. But some others are not so fond of it.

How to spot artificial intelligence-generated content

These videos are mostly for comedic content, but can also be used as a way to scam people or to make people believe this "real" person said something they never said.

Alejandro Mayorkas’s designed failure at the border is disgraceful

Mayorkas has lied to both Congress and the American public.

Morning Report — Senate in overtime for long-shot border bill

There is a reason the Senate is called the “cooling saucer.” It is rarely swift, and getting a Senate floor vote next week on what is still an outline of proposed changes to immigration law and funding for Ukraine before leaving Washington for the year would be a Mach 4 miracle. And 100 senators would...

What could Cornel West cost Biden?

Cornel West doesn’t want to hear the word spoiler. The public intellectual turned independent presidential candidate was a (sort of) supporter of President Joe...

AK Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposes $3,400 payment for residents amid nearly $1 billion budget gap

Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has presented a budget plan that proposes paying residents a $3,400 oil-wealth dividend next year and using savings to cover a $990 million deficit.

Joe Biden doesn’t want me to buy a house

My husband and I have been scoping out the housing market for the past three years, hoping for the right time (and price) to buy our first home. But like many young people, it seems we’ll be waiting a while yet.

What to read over Christmas break

Want a good holiday read — or a good holiday gift? Here are the top picks from some of the magazine’s most stalwart contributors.

The latest, greatest last word on Homer

You are familiar, perhaps, with those literary questions that are now ubiquitous on social media: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre? Bret Easton Ellis or Jonathan Franzen? The Iliad or the Odyssey? My answers, until recently, were: Both, Jane Eyre (I am a bit of a contrarian), Ellis, and the Odyssey. After finishing Robin Lane Fox’s magisterial Homer and His Iliad, I have come to see the error of my ways. The answer to that last question must be the Iliad.

The tyranny of signifiers

Today's discourse has reduced books to badges of status, with the literary world waging a culture war without culture.

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