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World
Thursday Briefing
Peace talks in Cairo and at the U.N..
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World
Thursday Briefing: A Court Rules Trump Can’t Hold Office
Plus the top social media trends of 2023.
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Arts
3,000 Readers Told Us Their Favorite Holiday Movie. Which Came Out on Top?
There’s no “Bah, humbug” here.
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Books
The Essential Henry James
Forget everything you’ve ever heard about less being more, about economy of syntax, about the read-between-the-lines profundity of wide-margined, double-spaced…
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Food
A Potato Lover’s Perfect Recipe for Ringing In the New Year
This buttery potato tart is topped with potato chips for crunch and caviar (if you like) for an extra pop…
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World
Seeking a Big Edge in A.I., South Korean Firms Think Smaller
ChatGPT, Bard, Claude. The world’s most popular and successful chatbots are trained on data scraped from vast swaths of the…
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World
Wednesday Briefing
A bombshell ruling on Donald Trump.
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World
Wednesday Briefing: The Aftermath of China’s Quake
Plus our best photos of 2023.
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News
J.G.A. Pocock, Historian Who Argued for Historical Context, Dies at 99
He helped forge a movement asserting that scholars must put aside their modern-day assumptions and prejudices to fully understand how…
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Magazine
Yes, Kwanzaa Is Made Up. That’s Why It’s Great
There’s something uniquely American in both its wanton borrowing from existing tradition and its naked admission of artificiality.