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The pandemic-driven rise of remote work has changed many companies’ views of the necessity of physical office spaces. Companies, especially within the tech sector, that once prided themselves on sprawling campuses found in 2020 that their workforces were just as productive Zooming in from home. The resulting shift t...

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, by Abigail Shrier (Sentinel, 320 pp., $30) Abigail Shrier’s first book, 2020’s Irreversible Damage, launched the mother of all cancel campaigns. Because the book attributed the sudden and inexplicable rise in juvenile gender anxiety to social contagion rather than the act...

The day is growing ever closer when Washington may have to add to its agenda with Beijing a nettlesome item it has long sought to avoid: the increasingly likely fact that China let the SARS2 virus escape from the Wuhan lab where it was concocted, setting off the Covid-19 pandemic that killed some 7 million people gl...