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Tough Love: Why Does My Husband Ask Me What to Feed the Kids?
A working mom of three wants to know: ‘Why am I still responsible for dinner planning on nights when I’m not even home?’ Our advice columnist weighs in.
Abigail Shrier
In Defense of Processed Foods
Yes, America has a diet problem. No, it’s not because your bread comes in a bag.
Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg
How Big Food Destroyed Our Health—and How to Fix It, with Dr. Mark Hyman
Obesity, Ozempic, peptides, MAHA, RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid. How to live healthier—and getting money out of food. Mark Hyman answers our questions.
Rafaela Siewert
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How DoorDash Gets You
New York wants to make it more expensive to get food delivered. That’s a good thing.
Sascha Seinfeld
Relax, Microplastics Aren’t Killing You
A debunked study last year connected microplastics in the brain to everything from heart attacks to dementia. Guess what? It’s not true.
Faye Flam
Mark Hyman: At Last, the Truth About Food
For decades, federal dietary policy fomented chronic obesity and illness. Now, it’s acknowledged a basic reality: What we eat matters more than how many…
Mark Hyman, MD
Has the Food Pyramid Been Fixed? Or Is It Even More Broken?
Ezekiel Emanuel, Lucy McBride, Vani Hari, and Nina Teicholz on America’s new dietary guidelines.
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Illegally Yours, Keith McNally
Before Balthazar, before my Green Card, before I had any success at all—New York showed me that charm and nerve could beat out class and pedigree.
Keith McNally
What the Bathroom at Balthazar Taught Me About America
I came to this country looking for fortune. Instead, I found belonging in a place most people never bother to look.
Cheikhou Niane
The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poverty
The poverty line, a six-decade-old benchmark, claims to define the threshold to the middle class. The number is a lie.
Michael W. Green
‘Zabar’s Is a Monument to the Fact That Not Everything Disappears’
Jerry Seinfeld, David Mamet, Richard Kind, Colin Quinn, and Leah McSweeney pay tribute to the store that Saul Zabar built.
The Free Press
Suzy Weiss: Can Men Make Friends?
Plus: We made the straight men of The Free Press review ‘Sex and the City.’
Suzy Weiss
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