Politics
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David E. Harris, Trailblazing Airline Pilot, Is Dead at 89
In 1964, at the height of the civil rights movement, he became the first Black pilot for a major commercial…
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The Art of Babar
Like his father, Jean, Laurent de Brunhoff trained to be a painter. He studied at the Académie de la Grande…
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My Neighbor Has a Very Annoying Emotional Support Dog. What Can I Do?
As long as this dog isn’t biting people, it’s probably not going anywhere. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you have…
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James Carville, the Cajun Who Can’t Stop Ragin’
A few years ago, when James Carville was teaching at Louisiana State University, he heard that one of his students…
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Hey, Losers! Here’s How to Bring Baseball’s Very Boring Era to an End.
Last year, Major League Baseball instituted a slew of new rules that were largely intended to have a single effect:…
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The Online Degradation of Women and Girls That We Meet With a Shrug
Alarms are blaring about artificial intelligence deepfakes that manipulate voters, like the robocall sounding like President Biden that went to…
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We Thought We Had Spotted an Exotic Bloom. It Was the Vividly Colored Remains of a Soda Bottle.
It is springtime, and I want to turn to thoughts of love. In my case, love of this world, love…
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The ‘Blood Bath’ Battle and the Electric Car War
If you believe President Biden’s aides and allies, he intends to fight the 2024 election primarily on the threat that…
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The Real Royal Scandal Is on Us
Americans have always loved a royal scandal, even a smidgen more than British royalists do themselves. Some of this is…
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Will the Rotters Keep Hounding Kate?
On Wednesday night I went to see “Corruption” at Lincoln Center. Written by J.T. Rogers and directed by Bartlett Sher,…