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Is the Inflation Storm Letting Up?
The average national price of regular gasoline this Christmas was almost 20 cents a gallon lower than it was a…
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China’s People Are Tired of Being Told to Grin and Bear It
Last March, shortly after Shanghai was locked down in an effort to stop an Omicron outbreak, a family friend died…
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Blue States Want Red States to Face Consequences, but Travel Bans Are Harmful
This past April, Georgia passed legislation that allows the barring of transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports. This was…
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Arizona Is in a Race to the Bottom of Its Water Wells, With Saudi Arabia’s Help
Arizona’s water is running worryingly low. Amid the worst drought in more than a millennium, which has left communities across…
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A Bricklayer Rebuilds His Life
Cornelius Kingsland Garrison’s mausoleum, with a geometric crown wrapping around its ridged dome roof, is one of the most elaborate…
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Waking Up From the American Dream
How the TV of 2022 depicted the weird, warping pressures of work and ambition in a boom-and-bust economy.
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It’s Turtles All the Way Down in the Fossil Record
How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries.
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Terry Hall, a Face of Britain’s Ska Revival, Is Dead at 63
The son of Coventry factory workers, he overcame a traumatic childhood to find fame in the Thatcher years as the…
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Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Artist’s Daughter and Inspiration, Dies at 87
As a girl she brought out a childlike quality in Picasso. As an adult she became an authority on his…
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‘Broker’ Review: It Takes a Village to Sell a Child
Filmed in South Korea, the new movie from Hirokazu Kore-Eda turns a potentially grim tale into a poignant road picture.