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In the age of A.I. paranoia, people are cutting em dashes, skipping metaphors, and leaving in typos to show their human.

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First, it’s important to think of the gerrymandering wars as you might an actual war. So imagine you are the head of a free ...

A lot of leaders are big-picture people who don’t sweat the details. Donald Trump takes the approach to the extreme: He hates details. He has never sweated a detail for a fraction of an instant. Facts ...

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My family does not live in the same area, but Mom has a place in the area that she used before when she needed to stay nearby ...

Dear Prudence, I missed my daughter’s wedding due to a medical emergency. I had to have an immediate surgery tha ...