The experience felt a little like getting unexpectedly absorbed in a trashy episode of reality TV, but also like suddenly realizing that a conversation that started in the shallows of small talk has at some point drifted into the deep waters of meaning.
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Peter C. Baker,
New Yorker,
11 May 2025
The government would absorb or benefit from any difference.
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