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Newyork
Season’s Greetings From Grinch City
Conflict and crisis have cast a pall over New York. Never mind swagger — where is the holiday spirit?
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Opinion
Robert M. Solow, Groundbreaking Economist and Nobelist, Dies at 99
His elegant work established that the main determinant of economic growth was technology, not growing capital and labor.
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Opinion
The Year in Apple Watches, A.I., Anarcho-Capitalists and Anticapitalists
We covered a lot of ground together in 2023. In this issue of the newsletter I’ll update you on some…
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News
In Bitter Cold, Rescuers Struggle to Help Quake Survivors in China
The death toll from the earthquake, in a poor, remote area, rose to 131. People who had lost their homes…
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News
Downward Dogs and Giraffes Up Close: What’s New at Texas Hill Country Hotels
Driving west out of Austin toward Fredericksburg, the road narrows to one-lane blacktop, and the edges of the city’s suburbs…
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Real Estate
How College Football Is Clobbering Housing Markets Across the Country
Short-term rentals are taking over college towns, fueled by wealthy fans and investors who turn homes into hotels for a…
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Newyork
How a 6-Second Video Turned a Campus Protest Into a National Firestorm
A pro-Palestinian protest at the Cooper Union was one of a string of episodes on colleges across the country that…
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Books
For Tracee Ellis Ross, Happiness Is a Bowl of Olives and Her Own Clothes
“My closet is my happy place,” said the actress, who is starring in “Candy Cane Lane” and “American Fiction.” “It…
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News
Gaza communications have been nearly blacked out for two days.
Gaza has been plunged into a near communication blackout for two days — at least the fifth such mass outage…
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News
The Billionaire, His Mexican Hideaways and Me
The financier Sir James Goldsmith created two lavish retreats in Mexico that are now hotels. A writer checked in to…