According to primatologist Frans de Waal, we don’t like to admit that animals, especially apes, have emotions just like ours, and science has become better at studying apes’ behaviors than human ones.
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Tramp Like Us
Can an American family learn to become outdoorsy in New Zealand, where the natural world is part of the national DNA? Sort of.
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Putin’s Rasputin
Journalist Amos Barshad meets with “Putin whisperer” Aleksandr Dugin to try to understand how a shadowy advisor exerts influence.
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Mothers of the Future
In a new memoir, Sophia Shalmiyev attempts to reunite with her missing mother through scraps, signs, and surrogates.
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It’s Time To Talk About Solar Geoengineering
We need to start talking about seemingly drastic approaches to the climate crisis, such as sun-dimming aerosols, right now — or we risk losing democratic control of the process.
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Joe Scapellato on “The Made-Up Man” and the Myth of the Self
In Scapellato’s new novel, a man is pulled into a noir detective mystery he doesn’t want to solve.
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Your Turn
Damon Young looks back at his family’s journey toward homeownership, and what that can really mean when you’re black in America.
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Borrowed Babies
Five months into her first pregnancy, one writer pursues a research project about the history of home economics, as she struggles with her own concerns about motherhood.
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The Girl I Didn’t Save
Cameron Dezen Hammon reflects on her frustrations as a Christian music minister for the terminally ill, unable to heal a cancer patient she cared for, and struggling to be compassionate at her belligerent Jewish father’s bedside.
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‘If Any of My Old Friends Are Reading This, It Is Okay Out Here.’
Amber Scorah talks about committing the one unforgiveable sin: believing, then not believing.
