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Why Haley Supporters Should Turn to Biden, Not Trump
Shortly after Nikki Haley exited the presidential race, Joe Biden issued a statement welcoming her supporters to the Democratic Party.…
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Child Care Is ‘Just a Huge Mess.’ Will Government Finally Fix It?
A few weeks ago, I got a panicked message from Jason Cohen, a dad in upstate New York. He told…
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A Rare Inside Look at Human Smuggling on the Border
In “Soldiers and Kings,” the anthropologist Jason De León interviews smugglers, arguing that they are victims of poverty and violence,…
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Read Your Way Through the San Francisco Bay Area
The Bay Area has had many lives. The Oakland novelist Leila Mottley shares books that paint a picture of the…
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Yvonne Loriod Was So Much More Than a Composer’s Muse
Loriod, the vessel for Olivier Messiaen’s piano works, had a rich musical life beyond him, which is captured in a…
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Dozens of Artists, 3 Critics: Who’s Afraid of the Whitney Biennial 2024?
The Whitney Biennial, New York’s most prominent showcase of new American (or American-ish) art, thrives on argument: in print, in…
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What the ‘Rust’ Shooting Case Is Really About
In my first job as a military adviser on a film set, I witnessed the stark contrast between the gun…
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Gabriel García Márquez Did Not Want His Final Book Published. But Should That Really Be the End of the Story?
When the writer Gabriel García Márquez, the author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and other classic novels, died 10…
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There Is Something Putin Can’t Control
According to “The Master and Margarita,” Mikhail Bulgakov’s celebrated novel about the devil’s visit to Stalinist Moscow, “manuscripts don’t burn.”…
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Kate Middleton’s Story Is About So Much More Than Kate Middleton
“Where Is Kate Middleton?” yet another headline blared on Monday. The public speculation following her unspecified abdominal surgery, long withdrawal…