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Kathy Goldman, Who Fought Hunger in New York City, Dies at 92
She helped introduce free breakfasts and lunches for schoolchildren and open pantries and soup kitchens for the poor.
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Fine, Call It a Comeback
If the Joe Biden who showed up to deliver the State of the Union address last week is the Joe…
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Why Haley Voters Should Support Biden
Last Wednesday, a day before he delivered a rousing State of the Union address, Joe Biden issued an invitation to…
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As a Doctor, I Don’t Fear Covid as I Once Did. But I Carry Its Grave Lessons Forward.
Walking through the intensive care unit is often a lesson in how much there is to fear. Just a few…
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America Has No Official Language. Instead It Has Hundreds.
Nearly 400 years ago, Walloon-speaking religious refugees from near what is today roughly the French-Belgian border arrived in a Lenape-speaking…
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There Is a Secret Hamiltonian in the White House
President Biden has been called a lot of things, but Hamiltonian is not usually one of them. In spite of…
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A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive
In 1889, a French doctor named Francois-Gilbert Viault climbed down from a mountain in the Andes, drew blood from his…
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Petra Mathers, Author Whose Children’s Stories Soared, Dies at 78
Her winsome animal characters and their comic adventures expressed universal truths and feelings, rendered in a naïve and often surrealistic…
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Fighting Hopelessness in Treating Addiction
Readers praise a column by Nicholas Kristof about an effective program.
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The Long, Strange History of ‘Manifesting’
Reality is what you make it — at least according to those who believe in manifesting, the art and quasi-spiritual…