Politics
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Does Everyone Want to Be on the ‘Mommy Track’?
When I caught up recently with Liz Koelsch, one of the moms that my friend Jessica Bennett profiled for our…
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It’s Not You: Dating Apps Are Getting Worse
“The golden age of dating apps is over,” a friend told me at a bar on Super Bowl Sunday. As…
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like North Korea?
How do you solve a problem like North Korea? Since the end of the Cold War, it seems that every…
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Covid Precautions Are Still With Us. Just Look Down.
In the early days of the Covid pandemic, public health experts announced that maintaining a distance of six feet between…
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America Owes a Historical Debt to Haiti
By Lydia Polgreen Produced by Vishakha Darbha Despite the violence and political turmoil in Haiti, New York Times Opinion columnist…
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Dorie Ladner, Unheralded Civil Rights Heroine, Dies at 81
She risked arrest and worse in pursuit of her goals of integration and voting rights from the time she was…
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Joe Camp, Filmmaker Behind ‘Benji’ Franchise, Dies at 84
He defied the odds to turn “Benji,” a live-action film series from a dog’s perspective, into a smash hit, and…
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Serge Raoul, Whose SoHo Bistro Glittered With Stars, Dies at 86
Raoul’s, which he founded, was a celebrity magnet and a neighborhood institution in the 1970s and ’80s. But he had…
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Working in Old Age Can’t Be the Only Answer to the Retirement Crisis
Teresa Ghilarducci, a labor economist, begins her new book with a story about an 82-year-old cashier at Walmart who was…
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Doug Blevins, Kicking Guru for College and N.F.L. Players, Dies at 60
He fine-tuned the mechanics of punters and kickers, including Adam Vinatieri, the N.F.L.’s career scoring leader, even as he lived…