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That Numbness You’re Feeling? There’s a Word for It.
In mid-October, a few days after the attack on Israel, a friend sent me a text from a rabbi. She…
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How Telling Stories to My Daughter Got Me Through the Darkest Times
I was nursing a 4-month-old baby when Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election in 2018. It was a disaster, and…
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Shecky Greene, High-Energy Comedy Star, Is Dead at 97
A Las Vegas institution, he would do just about anything for a laugh, including physical comedy so broad that it…
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Cale Yarborough, Hall of Fame NASCAR Driver, Dies at 84
He won the Daytona 500 four times, but his fistfight with Bobby Allison at a televised race “put NASCAR on…
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Will the Economy Help or Hurt Biden ’24? Krugman and Coy Dig Into Data.
Peter Coy: Paul, I think the economy is going to be a huge problem for President Biden in 2024. Voters…
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The Year in Opinion Video
Men serving life sentences in American prisons argued why, decades later, they pose no threat to society. Children whose fathers…
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What Are Young Voters Looking For?
Want to ruin a Democratic strategist’s New Year? Bring up President Biden’s popularity problem with younger voters. The strategist may…
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Don’t Flee the American Southwest Just Yet
This summer, when the temperature hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit or above in Phoenix for
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The Arc of Britney Spears Bends Toward Justice
It’s fair to say that 2023 was a good year for blond girl-culture icons with a long history of being…
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I Was Transformed by the Best Cult Ever: Michigan Football
I went to Ann Arbor, Mich., for a journalism fellowship because I was stuck in life. An outside observer might…