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Coup-Coup-Ca-Choo, Trump-Style
WASHINGTON — The man who tried to overthrow the government he was running was held Thursday by the government he…
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The Most Important Trial in U.S. History Should Be Televised
The only issue that Americans on all sides of our vast political divide seem to agree on is that we…
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The Normal Paths to Beating Trump Are Closing
In the quest to escape Donald Trump’s dominance of American politics, there have been two camps: normalizers and abnormalizers. The…
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The Truth About Your Bacon
We used to raise hogs on our family farm here, and to be honest I didn’t much like them. Defenders…
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New York City Needs Big Ideas and Leaders Willing to Try Them
People like to write off New York City, and time and again, this city proves them wrong. It’s never been…
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This Is the Music America Needs
In an Era of Extreme Polarization, Can Music Bring Us Together? Listen to the music that inspired this piece and…
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I Have a Choice to Make About My Blindness
I recently visited a local Mexican restaurant with my family. It was the first time we’d gone out together for…
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Julia Scully, Influential Photography Editor and Memoirist, Dies at 94
She oversaw Modern Photography for 20 years and wrote an acclaimed book about her rough-and-tumble childhood, some of it spent…
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The Unsettled Debate at the Heart of the Henrietta Lacks Case
Do we own our bodies? To an ordinary person, the answer is obviously yes. To a lawyer, it’s not at…
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Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
Dinosaurs, androids, darkness and superheroes factor into this months sci-fi picks.