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My Country Is Witnessing a Messy, Buffoonish End of Rule
On Dec. 31, 1980, Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal, announced that he was leaving power. At 74,…
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M. Emmet Walsh, Character Actor Who Always Stood Out, Dies at 88
His roles in films like “Blood Simple” and “Blade Runner” were sometimes big, sometimes small. But he invariably made a…
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The Potency of Trump’s ‘Lost Cause’ Mythmaking
At an Ohio rally this month, Donald Trump saluted the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, calling…
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When We See the Climate More Clearly, What Will We Do?
This month MethaneSAT, an $88 million, 770-pound surveillance satellite conceived by the Environmental Defense Fund and designed at Harvard to…
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A Big Step Toward a Fairer Housing Market
Some overcharges are right there for everybody to see. One of them is how much Americans have to pay to…
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Frans de Waal, Who Found the Origins of Morality in Apes, Dies at 75
An unusually popular primatologist, he drew the attention of Newt Gingrich, Isabella Rossellini, the philosopher Peter Singer and the reading…
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Bill Jorgensen, Authoritative New York TV Newsman, Dies at 96
Getting his start in the Midwest, he was best known for leading the New York broadcast “The 10 O’Clock News.”
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Comparing the Trump and Biden Years
More from our inbox: 5 Nobel Laureates, on Building an ‘Extremely Large Telescope’Radiation Exposure Killed My DadEnd the FilibusterHow to…
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A Cheapskate in Monterey
My first view of Monterey Bay on California’s Central Coast was thrilling — a raft of 40-something sea otters —…
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A New Building Aims to Be a Good Neighbor in Low-Rise Brooklyn
The architect of Bergen, in Boerum Hill, is Frida Escobedo, who recently landed the commission to redesign a wing of…