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Christopher Durang, Playwright Who Mixed High Art and Low Humor, Dies at 75
In a career spanning more than 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown.
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Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends
Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court…
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Dengue Fever Is Surging and We’re Looking the Other Way
I hate mosquitoes so much that I bring my own bug repellent to parties. But in early March, on a…
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Trump’s Backers Are Determined Not to Blow It This Time Around
In a rare display of unity, more than one hundred conservative tax-exempt organizations have joined forces in support of Donald…
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How European Soccer Made Peace With Fasting During Ramadan
In competitions like the Premier League, Muslim pros who once faced pressure to avoid daily fasts during the monthlong holiday…
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José Andrés: Let People Eat
In the worst conditions you can imagine — after hurricanes, earthquakes, bombs and gunfire — the best of humanity shows…
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The Appalling Tactics of the ‘Free Palestine’ Movement
Last week, Susanne DeWitt, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who later became a molecular biologist, spoke before the Berkeley, Calif., City…
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Stuck Ships and Supply-Chain Inflation
It has been a week since the Dali, a container ship, struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. It’s…
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John Barth, Writer Who Pushed Storytelling’s Limits, Dies at 93
His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most…
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Joe Biden Is More Than His Age
More from our inbox: Investing in UkraineA Worthy Betrayal by García Márquez’s SonsOur Gun Culture and Mass ShootingsCredit...Ben WisemanTo the…