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The Food Our Parents Fed Us

Cans of Cream of Something and frozen vegetables and rice plus more rice made for dinners that tasted like love. (And sanity.)

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Wednesday, August 6
Slate

My Scammer

I responded to one of those spam texts from a “recruiter”—then took the job. It got weirder than I could have imagined.

The New Yorker

Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma

In Gaza, where displaced children play games called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.

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