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‘The Fabelmans’: What’s Real and What’s Fictional
Steven Spielberg’s new semi-autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans,” hits many standard biopic beats: A Jewish boy, Sammy Fabelman, falls in love…
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What Is Indigenous Power?
Of all the striking monuments you might encounter while driving an overstuffed minivan west across the United States, few leave…
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Overconfident Regulators Caused the Ticketmaster Mess
Before the federal government let Live Nation merge with Ticketmaster in 2010, it obtained some very solemn promises that the…
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Trump Was a Gift That May Not Keep Giving
The 2022 midterm election revealed dangerous cracks in the Democratic coalition, despite the fact that the party held the Senate…
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Elon, the Mosh Pit Called. It Wants ‘Hard Core’ Back.
Have you ever gotten an email at midnight from the boss with an ominous subject line like “a fork in…
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To Understand the F.B.I., You Have to Understand J. Edgar Hoover
In recent years, as I finished writing a biography of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I. for nearly half…
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‘Racism’ Without Racists
I had a feeling that the piece I wrote last week, on the question of whether the terms “systemic,” “structural”…
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This Holiday, I’m Going to a Gay Bar
They tell us not to flaunt it. They tell us to not shove it in their faces. They tell us…
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Five Readings for Your Thanksgiving Table
I always enjoy Thanksgiving, but I’m particularly going to savor this year’s in light of the midterm elections. They surfaced…
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Will Mexico Be the Next Venezuela?
In 2018, I wrote a column calling the soon-to-be-elected Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, a left-wing version…