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I Love Facebook. That’s Why I’m Suing Meta.
While it’s become fashionable to dump on the aging social media platform Facebook, I quite enjoy using it. Many of…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not as Powerful as She Thinks She Is
In an interview last week, NewsNation’s Blake Burman asked Speaker Mike Johnson about Marjorie Taylor Greene, and before Burman could…
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Barbara O. Jones, Actress Who Brought Black Cinema to Life, Dies at 82
Her arresting roles in movies like “Bush Mama” and “Daughters of the Dust” helped shape a generation of independent filmmakers.
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Frank Stella, Towering Artist and Master of Reinvention, Dies at 87
He moved American art away from Abstract Expressionism toward cool minimalism. His explorations of color and form were endlessly discussed…
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What Medical Stories Do We Trust?
Let me tell you a medical story; you decide what you make of it. A person has a routine medical…
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The Columbia Protests Made the Same Mistake the Civil Rights Movement Did
Last week I wrote about the protests that had come to dominate my professional home, Columbia University, and make headlines…
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The Three Faces of Don
When I worked at Time magazine in the early ’80s, I bought a frame at the company gift shop that…
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The Food and Life Choices of a ‘Fat Activist’
Readers discuss the “freedom to be fat” and related health and parenting issues.
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The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism
In a recent interview with Time, Donald Trump promised a second term of authoritarian power grabs, administrative cronyism, mass deportations…
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The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t Know
Six days after winning election to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did what so many young progressives do while visiting the nation’s…