Opinion
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Unemployment Is Low, But So Is the National Mood
Every year the Federal Reserve takes a financial snapshot of America. It tells us how people are making ends meet,…
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When Corporations Take Over Health Care
More from our inbox: A New Generation of PhilanthropistsChild of an Older MotherNurse practitioner Haley Lynn, left, with patient Nathaniel…
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There Is a Reason Ron DeSantis Wants History Told a Certain Way
As you have probably seen by now, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has signed another bill that limits classroom instruction…
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Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73
In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it.…
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Classical Crescendo
WASHINGTON — The orgasm heard around the world was reported by Magnus Fiennes, a composer and music producer who is…
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How to Change a Life for 50 Cents
MAKENI, Sierra Leone — Brace yourself for a gross fact: Some 1.5 billion of the world’s people have worms living…
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Fear Is for Sale on the U.S.-Mexico Border
The U.S.-Mexico border was full of uncertainty in the days before May 11. Title 42, the Trump administration-crafted health ordinance…
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Can the Writers’ Strike Fix Hollywood?
Here’s my attempt to summarize the context of the Hollywood writers’ strike in three sentences. First, the entertainment business, floated…
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On ‘Succession,’ This Season Has Turned Us All Into Tom
My friends who have never seen “Succession,” the hit HBO show that will soon come to an end, say that…
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Shermane Billingsley, Guardian of the Stork Club’s Legacy, Dies at 78
The nightspot her father opened as a Prohibition-era speakeasy endured as a Manhattan institution until 1965. For decades she was…
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