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Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be…
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Marjorie Perloff, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Poetry, Dies at 92
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to…
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Why Has Obamacare Worked?
We’ve just passed the 14th anniversary of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. the Affordable…
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The Debate Over Free Speech, Disinformation and Censorship
More from our inbox: Senator Ted Cruz RespondsTalking to Children About CancerWhy We Keep Our LandlinesInternet AccessCredit...Nick Fancher for The…
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Lee Berry, Black Panther in a ‘Radical Chic’ Time, Dies at 78
He was one of the prosecuted Panther 21 in New York, and his account of abuse in jail was a…
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A New Law Would Remove Many Architectural Protections in Miami Beach
Lawmakers say preservationists held too much power over decisions on whether buildings should be demolished and what should be allowed…
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Toxic Gun Culture Begins at Home
James and Jennifer Crumbley never anticipated that their then-15-year-old son, Ethan, would use the 9-millimeter Sig Sauer handgun Mr. Crumbley…
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Do Birds Dream?
What new research on the avian brain and REM sleep in birds might reveal about our own dream lives.
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Bird Flu Spreads to Dairy Cows
U.S. regulators confirmed that sick cattle in Texas, Kansas and possibly in New Mexico contracted avian influenza. They stressed that…
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Abortion Law Is Far From Settled
In his majority opinion in the case overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the high court was…