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The Week When So Much Changed
An assassination attempt. An official Republican presidential nominee who is also the most polarizing figure in modern American history. Growing…
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The Republican Party Has a Split-Personality Problem
There is a paradox at the heart of Donald Trump’s campaign, a potentially irreconcilable divide that could damage his potential…
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Our Solution to the Crisis of Democracy
Remember the 1990s, when everybody thought liberal democracy was the only game in town and the end of history was…
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Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Champion for Progressive Causes, Dies at 74
Ms. Lee, who represented a district in the Houston area for nearly three decades, said in June that she had…
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Russia Punishes Those Who Seek the Truth
The only surprise in the guilty verdict against Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal correspondent who was arrested in Russia…
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Can We ‘Make America Affordable Again’? Should We?
The third item on the 2024 Republican Party platform, after promises to seal the border and engage in mass deportations,…
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Bernice Johnson Reagon, a Musical Voice for Civil Rights, Is Dead at 81
A singer, composer, curator and founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, she provided a gospel soundtrack…
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Review: A Chameleon’s Dance at Little Island
Pam Tanowitz’s “Day for Night” flows with and against the current of its surroundings, reflecting the park’s strange mix of…
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Happy Traum, Mainstay of the Folk Music World, Dies at 86
A noted guitarist and banjo player, he emerged from the same Greenwich Village folk-revival scene as his friend and sometime…
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They Say It’s a Woman’s World Now. The Workplace Tells a Different Story.
Three new books document obstacles to gender equality that, in the era that brought us #MeToo, Taylor Swift and the…