America
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Tyre Nichols’s Death Is America’s Shame
The spectacle of a televised countdown to the showing of the video in which Tyre Nichols was savagely beaten by…
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Books
A Prophet of Boom With Charts for Every Occasion
With “The Aftermath,” Philip Bump marshals a sea of statistics to debunk myths about that big, self-involved and endlessly discussed…
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Books
Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors.
In Kathryn Ma’s new novel, “The Chinese Groove,” an overly optimistic Chinese man migrates to America to find connection and…
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News
Biden Against the Wounded Extremists
I’ve covered four presidents since joining The Times in 2003. Year after year (except during the Trump years) I go…
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The Kind of Revolution That Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned
In 1968, four days before he was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Rev. Dr.…
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The New American Dream? Buying Freedom From Irritation.
When you’ve been covering a topic for a while, you see the same story lines pop up over and over.…
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Why Has America Fallen So Hard for Harry and Meghan?
Whether out of Anglophilia, nostalgia, masochism, traditionalism or just a particular strain of fealty to the rich and famous, America’s…
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When American History Turns Into American Mythology
In the realm of folklore and ancient traditions, myths are tales forever retold for their wisdom and underlying truths. Their…
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Making America the Opposite of Great
I admit it: Like many liberals, I’m feeling a fair bit of MAGAfreude — taking some pleasure in the self-destruction…
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Kenneth Rowe, Who Defected From North Korea With His Jet, Dies at 90
Two months after the Korean War armistice, he handed America an intelligence bonanza with his headline-making flight in a Soviet-made…