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Christopher Edley Jr., Civil Rights Expert Heard by Presidents, Dies at 71
He pivoted between serving as an adviser to the Carter, Clinton and Obama White Houses and teaching at Harvard and…
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Want to fix Social Security? The Well-Off Must Accept Smaller Checks.
Eleven years. That’s all that’s left until the combined Social Security accounts — the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund…
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OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks
Chatbots, image generators and voice assistants are gradually merging into a single technology with a conversational voice.
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Does Mindfulness Training Lead to Better Mental Health?
More from our inbox: Teaching About HateIsrael and Hamas: Let the I.C.C. DecideNonpartisan House SpeakersLucy Foulkes, a research psychologist at…
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What Trump Could Do in Foreign Policy Might Surprise the World
Love it or hate it, the United States has an imperial presidency, and in his first term, Donald Trump demonstrated…
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It’s Not Your Imagination. Your Allergies Are Getting Worse.
It’s spring, and I love spring more than I love almost anything else about the natural world, but I don’t…
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On Instagram, a Jewelry Ad Draws Solicitations for Sex With a 5-Year-Old
Advertisers of merchandise for young girls find that adult men can become their unintended audience. In a test ad, convicted…
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An Independent Life of Flowers and Bible Verses in the Bronx
A woman in a HUD-subsidized apartment in a building for older New Yorkers bristles at the notion that she would…
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$2.2 Million Homes in California
A shingled bungalow with a guesthouse and a geodesic dome in Topanga, a Victorian-era retreat in Napa and a midcentury-modern…
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Susan Backlinie, Swimmer Who Was First Victim in ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 77
Ms. Backlinie, a stunt woman, appeared in the terrifying opening scene of the 1975 blockbuster in which a great white…