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Let’s Talk 2023: Opinion Writers Respond to Your Comments
Each week, readers submit thousands of comments on Opinion pieces. The word “appreciation” doesn’t begin to cover how our staff…
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Politics
A.I. Can Make Art That Feels Human. Whose Fault Is That?
A fake Drake/Weeknd mash-up is not a threat to our species’s culture. It’s a warning: We can’t let our imaginations…
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Ladle Me a Bowl of the Midwestern Good Stuff
I was not raised in a family of cooks. My parents grew up in the Midwest, in the second half…
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A Trump Conviction Could Cost Him Enough Voters to Tip the Election
Recent general-election polling has generally shown Donald Trump maintaining a slight lead over President Biden. Yet many of those polls…
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Magazine
Honey, Let’s Ditch the Kids
Some parents of adult children have made the bold choice to forgo family traditions this holiday season.
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The Polar Explorer, and Scammer, Who Should Be an American Hero
We don’t have national heroes anymore. When we put public figures up on pedestals today, it’s not always about their…
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A Fight at Columbia’s School of Social Work
More from our inbox: Rooming Houses as a Solution to HomelessnessMy Family’s StoryCredit...Illustration by Sam Whitney/The New York TimesTo the…
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World
A Special Christmas Briefing
Wishing you and your family an excellent holiday.
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I Used to Write Jokes About How Parenting Is Terrible. Then I Had My Daughter.
Here is a summary of a conversation I feel like I had countless times during my pregnancy: You think being…
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A Christmas Tale of Love and Heartbreak
My mom raised hell at her Catholic high school in the 1950s. Carol smoked, skipped class and talked back to…