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Thomas Neff, Who Turned Soviet Warheads Into Electricity, Dies at 80
An M.I.T. physicist, he engineered an East-West deal that reduced nuclear threats and produced one of the greatest peace dividends…
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I Watched the Republican Convention. The Democrats Can Still Win.
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ This year’s Republican National Convention was Donald Trump’s third as the party’s nominee, but…
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Lord Almighty, Joe, Let It Go!
Everyone wants Joe Biden gone. Even the people who don’t want him gone really want him gone. “Everyone’s waiting for…
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Biden and Trump Have Succeeded in Breaking Reality
Four years ago the Republican convention was a bizarre spectacle, a cross between a Napoleonic fantasy and a Leni Riefenstahl…
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How Trump Sabotaged His Own Apotheosis
The six days that carried Donald Trump from the stage in Butler, Pa., to the rostrum at the Republican National…
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The Week When So Much Changed
An assassination attempt. An official Republican presidential nominee who is also the most polarizing figure in modern American history. Growing…
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The Republican Party Has a Split-Personality Problem
There is a paradox at the heart of Donald Trump’s campaign, a potentially irreconcilable divide that could damage his potential…
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Our Solution to the Crisis of Democracy
Remember the 1990s, when everybody thought liberal democracy was the only game in town and the end of history was…
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Happy Traum, Mainstay of the Folk Music World, Dies at 86
A noted guitarist and banjo player, he emerged from the same Greenwich Village folk-revival scene as his friend and sometime…
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Bobby Grier, Who Integrated the Sugar Bowl in 1956, Dies at 91
The governor of Georgia tried to ban him from the game, but the state’s Board of Regents let him play.…