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America Is Being Tested in So Many Ways Right Now
Gail Collins: Bret, much serious stuff to talk about today, but I want to get my canine issues out of…
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Getting Back to Basics on Free Speech
At colleges and universities across the country, from Cal Poly-Humboldt to Columbia, students have been protesting against the war in…
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Trump Knows Dominance Wins. Someone Tell Democrats.
Donald Trump once called Bill Barr, his former attorney general, “Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy.” When Mr. Barr…
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The Cicadas Are Here, Singing a Song for the Future
For more than a week, I’ve been walking around my yard at night with a UV flashlight, looking for the…
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I’m a Doctor. I Was Unprepared When I Got This Disease.
By Deborah Heaney Produced by Vishakha Darbha Dr. Deborah Heaney was enjoying a vacation in the Caribbean when she was…
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Let’s All Take a Deep Breath About China
The amygdala is a pair of neural clusters near the base of the brain that assesses danger and can help…
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Barenboim: What Beethoven’s Ninth Teaches Us
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was first performed exactly 200 years ago Tuesday and has since become probably the work…
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Bernard Hill, Actor in ‘Titanic’ and ‘Lord of the Rings,’ Dies at 79
With a stout frame, bushy whiskers and a weathered visage, he embodied men of authority facing down danger with weary…
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Laurent Cantet, Whose Films Explored France’s Undersides, Dies at 63
His acclaimed “The Class” walked a provocative line between documentary and fiction. In that film and others, he explored the…
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Jerome Rothenberg, Who Expanded the Sphere of Poetry, Dies at 92
His anthology “Technicians of the Sacred” included a range of non-Western work and was beloved by, among others, rock stars…
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