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Politics
The True Harm of True Crime
In the 1990s you would have been hard-pressed to find someone who didn’t know the name of my sister Polly…
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Klee Benally, Navajo Activist and Artist, Dies at 48
He helped found a punk-rock band when he was 14. That led to a long career as an advocate for…
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‘Shared Sorrow Is Half Sorrow’
Early on the morning of Friday, Nov. 10, my phone rang with terrible news: My wife, Nancy, has a highly…
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Politics
This Election Year Is Unlike Any Other
At the outset of this election year, with Donald Trump leading the race to be the Republican presidential nominee, Americans…
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This Italian American Cliché Made Me Cringe. Now I’m Cheering for It.
Personalized celebrations have become an indelible part of football, so when Tommy DeVito, the third-string quarterback for the New York…
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Arts
‘Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go’ Turns 50
My wife was editing our teenager’s bedroom, hunting things to pass on to his younger cousins, or donate to Goodwill.…
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Politics
Tired? Distracted? Burned Out? Listen to This.
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ I’m convinced that attention is the most important human faculty. Your life, after all,…
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Politics
Look What We Made Taylor Swift Do
In 2006, the year Taylor Swift released her first single, a closeted country singer named Chely Wright, then 35, held…
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Politics
Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me
On Tuesday, I made the wrenching but necessary decision to resign as Harvard’s president. For weeks, both I and the…
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Food
An Easy, Quick, One-Pot Meatless Pasta, Because January
Hetty Lui McKinnon’s creamy one-pot mushroom and leek pasta comes with a reader warning: “You can’t stop eating this!”