Politics
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I’m an Indian Muslim, and I’m Scared to Say So
I used to answer the phone with “Salam.” Not anymore. I don’t want people to know I’m a Muslim. There…
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Richard Sherman, Songwriter of Many Spoonfuls of Sugar, Dies at 95
He and his brother, Robert, teamed up to write the songs for “Mary Poppins” and other Disney classics. They also…
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Zack Norman, Actor Who Juggled Multiple Professions, Dies at 83
Best known for movies like “Romancing the Stone,” he also made a mark as a producer, a real estate developer…
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The Alito Family’s ‘Appeal to Heaven’
There is no real antecedent in American history to the situation surrounding Justice Samuel Alito. To recap, we learned last…
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Adele Faber, Who Helped to Change How Parents Talk to Children, Dies at 96
With her collaborator, Elaine Mazlish, she wrote “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk”…
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Men Fear Me, Society Shames Me, and I Love My Life
I was once told that the challenge of making successful feminist porn is that the thing women desire most is…
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Kindness in the Time of Cicadapocalypse
After more than a decade sipping tree sap underground, as many as a trillion cicadas are now emerging en masse…
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Biden Underestimates How Much Black Americans Care About This Issue
Black voters will not only be a driving force in the 2024 elections; they will most likely be the driving…
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America’s Trails Are a Wonder, and They Need Our Help
As dawn broke on a fall day in 2020 over the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, a crew…
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Exploring the World Beyond Queens
Shariff Bukari, 25, gravitated toward math and science as a child. One of his dream careers was paleontology, which combined…