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Life After Loss Is Awful. I Need to Believe It’s Also Beautiful.
In Jewish tradition, a child who loses a parent is required to say Kaddish, the mourner’s prayer, every day for…
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World
This Gecko’s Camouflage Is So Good, It Masqueraded as Another Species
A reptile found in Madagascar is impossible to tell apart from tree bark by day. For decades, scientists had mixed…
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News
Five Debate Moments That Will Shape the Republican Campaign
There are moments of fireworks at every presidential debate, and then there are moments that last — the moments that…
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News
In a Report From a Distant Border, I Glimpsed Our Brutal Future
Once in a while, some single thing manages to encapsulate all that feels terrible about our world today. For me,…
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Books
What Can Literature Teach Us About Forgiveness?
“How I’m gon keep from killing him,” says Celie, the protagonist of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel “The Color…
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Finance
How Schools Can Survive (and Maybe Even Thrive) With A.I. This Fall
Step 1: Assume all students are going to use the technology.
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US
Central U.S. Swelters Under Heat Dome, Forcing Cancellations and Precautions
A summer of extreme weather continued as residents coped with oppressive heat across a large stretch of the nation’s midsection.
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News
The Rays Plan to Keep Calm and Carry On
A red-hot start followed by a brutal July knocked Tampa Bay out of first place, but the Rays believe they…
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News
In New York, One Team Is Lost and the Other Is Targeting 2025
The middling Yankees have no idea who they are. The Mets’ sell-off gives them a clearer identity.
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Finance
‘Strays’ Stumbles at Box Office Without Its Stars’ Promotion
The R-rated comedy opened to a fifth place showing this weekend, while the comic book movie “Blue Beetle” came in…