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The Case for More Insults
By Rafi Kohan Produced by Sophia Alvarez Boyd It’s easy to dismiss competitive language, also known as trash talk, as…
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Biden Loves Ireland. It Doesn’t Love Him Back.
If there’s one thing Irish people know about President Biden, it’s that he’s one of us. He says so all…
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Who Is Blowing Up Russia?
There are two plausible hypotheses regarding Friday’s terrorist attack at a concert hall outside Moscow, in which at least 139…
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Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be…
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Vacation Rentals: How to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint
Travelers choosing to stay in a vacation home instead of a hotel may have to spend more time searching for…
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Marjorie Perloff, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Poetry, Dies at 92
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to…
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Why Has Obamacare Worked?
We’ve just passed the 14th anniversary of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. the Affordable…
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The Debate Over Free Speech, Disinformation and Censorship
More from our inbox: Senator Ted Cruz RespondsTalking to Children About CancerWhy We Keep Our LandlinesInternet AccessCredit...Nick Fancher for The…
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Lee Berry, Black Panther in a ‘Radical Chic’ Time, Dies at 78
He was one of the prosecuted Panther 21 in New York, and his account of abuse in jail was a…
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A New Law Would Remove Many Architectural Protections in Miami Beach
Lawmakers say preservationists held too much power over decisions on whether buildings should be demolished and what should be allowed…