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Is Your Fireplace Ready for Winter?
Here’s how to dress it up and choose the tools you’ll need — before you build that first roaring fire.
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Curse Words Around the World Have Something in Common (We Swear)
These four sounds are missing from some of the seven words you can never say on television, and the pattern…
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Sleigh Bells Ring, Everyone’s Streaming: Christmas Music Is Back
Grabbing a piece of the lucrative holiday market requires planning, luck and the occasional battle with a seasoned superstar like…
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Review: ‘The Far Country’ Brings a Neglected History Closer
Early 20th-century San Francisco and Guangdong, China, overlap in Lloyd Suh’s artful examination of the emotional price of immigration.
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The Best Crime Novels of 2022
Our columnist, who’s read dozens of books this year, selects her favorites.
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Is This Elephant Bothering You?
“Pests,” by Bethany Brookshire, examines our relationships with the animals we’ve come to loathe. It’s not just the usual suspects…
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Why It Matters That China’s Protests Started in Xinjiang
Late last month, in a stunning display of frustration, people in multiple cities across China took to the streets to…
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Why Isn’t the U.S. Embracing This Pandemic Prevention Strategy?
Vaccines can end pandemics. That’s why they are central to any plan to prepare for the next one. Developing countries…
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Yes, the Players in the World Cup Do Keep Falling Over for No Reason
LONDON — It is a part of the viewing experience of World Cup football (soccer, as Americans know it). At…
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There’s Been a Massive Change in Where American Policy Gets Made
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Since 2021, Democrats have controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency, and they’ve…