Politics
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A.I. Is the Future of Photography. Does That Mean Photography Is Dead?
John Szarkowski, the legendary curator at the MoMA, once described photography as “the act of pointing.” And for the nearly…
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The Controversy Over Tongue Surgery for Infants
More from our inbox: The Tradition of Factory-Built HomesA baby was examined before a tongue-tie release in a clinic in…
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Can Hope Ever Be a Form of Medicine?
Of all the ways the body can go wrong, A.L.S. is one of the most frightening. It begins subtly —…
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Why the World Needs Its Own Immune System
The thing that has surprised me most since I began my job leading foreign assistance for global health at the…
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In the Shelter of a Weeping Beech
Off Route 6 on Cape Cod, a few miles in from the bay near Yarmouth, Mass., there hides a giant…
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The Polar Explorer, and Scammer, Who Should Be an American Hero
We don’t have national heroes anymore. When we put public figures up on pedestals today, it’s not always about their…
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Proust Had Madeleines. I Have McNuggets.
By Adrian J. Rivera Produced by Vishakha Darbha Growing up in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the Opinion editorial assistant Adrian…
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The First Step to Get Off the Streets? A Room of His Own.
For years, Theron Truluck was living in desperate conditions in New York City, mostly on the Q train. Now he’s…
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A Fight at Columbia’s School of Social Work
More from our inbox: Rooming Houses as a Solution to HomelessnessMy Family’s StoryCredit...Illustration by Sam Whitney/The New York TimesTo the…
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Mildred Miller, Stalwart of the Metropolitan Opera, Dies at 98
In her 23 years at the Met, she sang with the greatest stars of her day. She had a second…