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The Internet Is a Wasteland, So Give Kids Better Places to Go
In January, I had the odd experience of nodding along with Senator Lindsey Graham, who can usually be relied on…
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Why Are Americans Still Down on the Economy?
Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Honestly, I didn’t think Republicans were going to try…
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David Seidler, Oscar-Winning Writer of ‘The King’s Speech,’ Dies at 86
He drew on his own painful experiences with a stutter in depicting King George VI’s struggles to overcome his impediment…
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What Makes a Coincidence Meaningful?
There are two kinds of people in the world: People who say, “What a coincidence,” and people who say, “Just…
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James D. Robinson III, Former Chief of American Express, Dies at 88
He led the company from 1977 to 1993 and helped transform Wall Street into a more competitive financial marketplace.
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Thomas Stafford, 93, Commander of First U.S.-Soviet Space Mission, Dies
The Apollo-Soyuz mission, amid the Cold War, broke new ground in space cooperation when an American capsule docked with a…
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Ed Mintz, Who Gave Audiences the Chance to Grade Films, Dies at 83
With CinemaScore, he broke new ground by building a business based on the opinions of moviegoers rather than critics.
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Gylan Kain, a Founder of the Last Poets and a Progenitor of Rap, Dies at 81
He spun gripping portraits of the Black experience starting in the 1960s with the seminal Harlem spoken-word collective, lay a…
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Bernard Schwartz, Antiwar Executive Who Built an Arms Maker, Dies at 98
Despite his opposition to the Vietnam War, as an investor he took over an ailing defense contractor, Loral, and turned…
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Trump’s Warning of a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses
More from our inbox: Orli and the FoxIt Was ‘Poisoning,’ Not an ‘Overdose’Class-Based AdmissionsFormer President Donald J. Trump at a…