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Selling Houses While Black
About 6 percent of real estate agents and brokers in the United States are Black. Their white peers make almost…
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Renting Rather Than Buying? Here’s Where You’ll Save the Most.
Although renting is still cheaper than paying a mortgage in most U.S. metro areas, the gap between the two is…
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She Made History as a Black Basketball Star. Why Won’t Her College Name Its Arena for Her?
The Walter Sillers Coliseum, a 3,000-seat brick arena, has been the basketball mecca of Delta State University since it was…
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If D.C. Is a Swamp, DeSantis’s Florida Is Under Water
Engulfed in turmoil in Washington, D.C., and the humiliation and setbacks of their party leaders, Republicans can be forgiven for…
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Cougars Are Heading East. We Should Welcome Them.
Numerous cougar sightings were reported east of the Mississippi River last fall, encounters that have become more frequent in recent…
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Big Tech Hooked Us on Buying New Stuff. There’s a Way to Fix That.
Hosted by Lulu Garcia-Navarro Produced by Wyatt Orme and Derek Arthur Edited by Anabel Bacon and Kaari Pitkin Engineered by…
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Homemade Body Armor and Anti-Drone Apps. This Is Ukraine’s Civil Defense.
ODESA, Ukraine — With tourniquets, there is no way of doing things on the cheap. These lifesaving devices, used to…
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The Fraudulence of Investigating the Investigators
Republicans have decided to hound the hounds. Understanding that they can’t throw federal investigators off the trail of multiple conservatives…
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Liz Robbins Dies at 76; Broke Glass Ceiling as a Washington Lobbyist
She founded the first woman-owned lobbying firm in the country, and made her name by supporting social policy and nonprofit…
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The Kafka You Never Knew
An unabridged volume of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores the rough edges and impulses that were buffed out of past editions.