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News
Claudine Gay and the Limits of Social Engineering at Harvard
I had written and filed a column about Harvard and its president, Claudine Gay, when news of her resignation broke…
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Magazine
Willie Nelson’s Sense of Style
“Roll me up and smoke me when I die,” Willie Nelson sang from the stage of the Hollywood Bowl during…
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News
Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead
He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and…
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News
Shecky Greene, High-Energy Comedy Star, Is Dead at 97
A Las Vegas institution, he would do just about anything for a laugh, including physical comedy so broad that it…
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US
He Killed His Molester as a Teenager. Should He Be Spared Deportation?
Marco Flores was months away from finishing his prison sentence when an immigration agent showed up last spring at the…
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US
Why Some Parents Give Their Children a Last Name Other Than the Father’s
Some American parents have been breaking the patrilineal tradition for generations, but the number who do so remains small.
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Books
Helping a Child Navigate Grief? Open a Picture Book.
“But where did he go?” “Can she see us?” “Why didn’t Pop bring his glasses?” Kids have questions about death,…
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News
Can Hope Ever Be a Form of Medicine?
Of all the ways the body can go wrong, A.L.S. is one of the most frightening. It begins subtly —…
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Arts
Fantasia Barrino-Taylor on the Pain (and Joy) of ‘The Color Purple’
Throughout the six months of production on the new film adaptation of “The Color Purple,” Fantasia Barrino-Taylor, who plays the…
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World
He Was Ready to Die, but Not to Surrender
How a Ukrainian soldier escaped from the embattled Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol and sneaked 125 miles to Ukrainian territory.