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Public Schools Struggle to Say the Right Thing About the Israel-Hamas War
Across the country, public schools, like colleges and universities, are facing backlash as they try to respond to the Hamas…
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If You Plant Milkweed, They Will Come. (And Not Just the Butterflies.)
These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either.
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When the Skyscraper You Hate Blocks the Skyscraper You Love
Sometimes New York’s a downer. I had an appointment the other day near Madison Square Park. For years, one of…
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How Philip Roth’s Raunchiest Novel Made It to the Stage
For their adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” John Turturro and Ariel Levy sought to preserve “the nasty side of existence” evoked…
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Joseph J. Kohn, Who Broke New Ground in Calculus, Dies at 91
The techniques he developed in the field of complex numbers have found use in tackling a wide range of fundamental…
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Why My Fall Made Me Feel So Ashamed
The morning after I fell, I lay in bed assessing the damage. My knees were banged up. The right one…
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There’s Still No House Speaker. What Happens Now?
The House has been without a permanent speaker since Oct. 3. Here is how a new one could be elected,…
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The Race to Save Our Secrets From the Computers of the Future
They call it Q-Day: the day when a quantum computer, one more powerful than any yet built, could shatter the…
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The Path to Reducing Pedestrian Deaths Is Steep but Straight
Last year, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association, more than 7,500 pedestrians were killed while walking on U.S. roadways.…
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Russians Who Moved to Israel Over One War Are in the Middle of Another One
Days after Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Matvey Kukuy, a technology entrepreneur, fled the country for Israel, more out of…