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Enduring This Dark World

How do you survive in these bleak and chaotic times?

Heather Havrilesky
Apr 10, 2026
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Portrait of James Sabartes (1901), Pablo Picasso

The world is dark right now. This morning the front page of the New York Times published pictures of all of the Iranian elementary schools and universities that have been destroyed or damaged by US-Israeli strikes. On Tuesday, Trump posted the following words on Truth Social: “A whole civilization will die…

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