Politics
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The Columbia Protests Made the Same Mistake the Civil Rights Movement Did
Last week I wrote about the protests that had come to dominate my professional home, Columbia University, and make headlines…
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The Three Faces of Don
When I worked at Time magazine in the early ’80s, I bought a frame at the company gift shop that…
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The Food and Life Choices of a ‘Fat Activist’
Readers discuss the “freedom to be fat” and related health and parenting issues.
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The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism
In a recent interview with Time, Donald Trump promised a second term of authoritarian power grabs, administrative cronyism, mass deportations…
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The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t Know
Six days after winning election to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did what so many young progressives do while visiting the nation’s…
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One Photo That Captures the Loss in Gaza
An American surgeon who volunteered in Gaza sent me a photo that sears me with its glimpse of overwhelming grief:…
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Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?
Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.
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Watch the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Reach Its Peak
The event will be active when the moon is just a sliver in the sky, but it is less easy…
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When Your Neighbor Renovates, How Do You Protect Your Home?
A law exists to balance the interests of people who renovate their properties with the interests of their neighbors.
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C.J. Sansom, Mystery Novelist Drawn to Tudor England, Dies at 71
He wrote a popular series of books revolving around a hunchbacked detective, Shardlake, whose troubles echo the author’s experiences of…