Opinion
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George Santos, the Falsehoods and the Facts
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It’s the End of an Era of Great European Cinema. Or Is It?
PARIS — So that’s the end of that. With the deaths of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Marie Straub this year, the…
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Did the Tesla Story Ever Make Sense?
If you’re one of those people who bought Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency near its peak last fall, you’ve lost a…
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The Afterlife of Your Holiday Discards
Amy Hwang is a cartoonist whose work frequently appears in The New Yorker.
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Nélida Piñon, Provocative Brazilian Novelist, Is Dead at 85
Widely regarded as one of her country’s greatest contemporary writers, she was also the first woman elected president of the…
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Menahem Schmelzer, Jewish Theological Seminary Librarian, Dies at 88
During his long tenure, the seminary’s collection was a primary destination for scholarly inquiry into the history and literature of…
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When Books for Children Are Banned
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The Thorny Questions Raised by Charitable Giving
The last week of the year is a big one for writing checks to charities, especially for Americans who are…
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Is the Inflation Storm Letting Up?
The average national price of regular gasoline this Christmas was almost 20 cents a gallon lower than it was a…
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China’s People Are Tired of Being Told to Grin and Bear It
Last March, shortly after Shanghai was locked down in an effort to stop an Omicron outbreak, a family friend died…