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Alex Beam

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The tyranny of maybe

Experts and advocates, who often have a vested stake in creative doomsaying, seem particularly gifted at ginning up hypothetical links to misfortunes...

17.01.2025 10

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Why I’ll skip Ozempic

My weight concerns mainly injure my considerable vanity, and I’m not about to outsource my self-esteem issue to Big Pharma if I don’t have to.

02.01.2025 3

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Call me old-fashioned, but I remember when …

I’m such an antique I generally stand up when a woman enters the room. People check for dust behind my ears and wonder if I’ve emerged from the...

20.12.2024 6

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Jesus at 2024: How a new generation is rediscovering faith

Spirituality surges as young Americans seek hope in turbulent times.

06.12.2024 3

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My plan for surviving the next four years

I have options.

25.11.2024 5

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Meet the artist ‘Clark Rockefeller’

The con artist has been busy as a painter and journalist while serving his sentence at San Quentin.

11.11.2024 10

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The ghosts of the NFL

Derek Stingley Jr. is the grandson of the player some of us Patriots fans will never forget.

25.10.2024 1

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On second thought, it’s a work of genius!

Take heart, shipwrecks, real and figurative.

12.10.2024 3

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Is Costco the center of the universe?

Now I feel like I know a thing or two about Costco, and to know it is to admire it.

26.09.2024 20

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What’s the next big thing?

A thing is with us until it isn’t, but its disappearance will go unrecorded. One day it will simply no longer be a thing.

13.09.2024 4

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Democrats are choosing joy. How much of it can one nation endure?

For Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, it’s the perfect moment to dial down the joy and happiness. Joy can lead only to trouble.

29.08.2024 3

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Whose ‘Lord of the Rings’ is it anyway?

LOTR is a work of literature, not propaganda. It belongs to no faction or ideology, despite fans’ and critics’ insistence on shaping it to their...

02.08.2024 2

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