Politics
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A Slap Shot Against Climate Denial
The climate is warming. Polar ice is melting, glaciers are receding, the chemistry of the ocean is becoming dangerously acidic,…
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What the News and the Pews Have in Common
In the past few weeks, both The Atlantic and The New Yorker used the phrase “extinction-level event” to headline stories…
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Joe Louis Dudley, Pioneering Hair Care Entrepreneur, Dies at 86
Starting in their kitchen, he and his wife at the time built a thriving company making beauty products for Black…
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OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion
The A.I. start-up’s valuation tripled in less than 10 months.
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What Feckless Americans Can Learn From Navalny’s Bravery
Vladimir Putin’s Russia has just become even more bleak and soulless with the reported death in an Arctic prison of…
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Why Don’t We Just Ban Fossil Fuels?
Imagine there were no law against arson and we were trying to figure out a way to stop it. One…
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Aleksei Navalny, ‘Indomitable Spirit’
More from our inbox: The Scrutiny of Fani Willis’s Love LifeEx-Justice Stephen Breyer’s Tribute to a French Legal StarG.O.P. ‘Moral…
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The New School Lists Its Greenwich Village Townhouse for $20 Million
Under increasing pressure to offset a looming budget deficit, the school is selling the renovated 19th-century brick townhouse on West…
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The Lost Story of New York’s Most Powerful Black Woman
Elizabeth Amelia Gloucester appeared in the census for the final time on June 8, 1880. The census enumerators who crisscrossed…
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I Read These Books So That You Don’t Have To
President Biden had a far better comeback at his disposal last week when he took offense at a special counsel…