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When the Big Wave Doesn’t Break, but Your Emotions Do
WAIMEA BAY, Hawaii — Last Monday afternoon, Tikanui Smith, a big-wave surfer from Tahiti, received the call he had been…
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Trump’s Handling of Classified Documents Still Looks Very, Very Bad
The drip-drip of news over the last week about classified files found in President Biden’s home and his post-vice-presidential office…
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Keep Your Politics Out of My Arugula
When I was 14, I was asked to fetch some baklava from the basement of the Turkish restaurant where I…
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Believing the Taliban’s Lies Makes Us All Unsafe
I was a first-year medical student at Kabul University when, on Sept. 26, 1996, Taliban fighters swept in and seized…
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How Covid’s Bitter Divisions Tarnished a Liberal Icon
In a part of the world where coronavirus restrictions lingered, Jacinda Ardern struggled to get beyond her association with pandemic…
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Michigan Woman and 2 Sons Freeze to Death After Days on the Street
The sheriff of Oakland County, who noted that a 10-year-old daughter had survived, called the deaths preventable, citing the mother’s…
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Your Thursday Briefing
A helicopter crash in Ukraine and the resignation of Jacinda Ardern.
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Protester Killed in Firefight at Site of New Atlanta Police Center
The authorities say the protester fired on a state trooper as the authorities worked to clear demonstrators who have occupied…
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Michigan Woman and 2 Sons Freeze to Death After Days on the Street
The sheriff of Oakland County, who noted that a 10-year-old daughter had survived, called the deaths preventable, citing the mother’s…
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How to Divide the Working Class
New York City was the site of one of the deadliest riots in United States history 160 years ago this…