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How Michigan Ended Minority Rule
On April 8, one day before the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated a ban on abortion from 1864, Donald Trump said…
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Honeybees Invaded My House, and No One Would Help
Responding to fears of a “honeybee collapse,” 30 states have passed laws to protect the pollinators. But when they invaded…
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Edward Dwight Aims for Orbit at Last
Six decades ago, Mr. Dwight’s shot at becoming the first Black astronaut in space was thwarted by racism and politics.…
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From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.
Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?
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The Price We Pay for Having Upper-Class Legislators
There is a coordinated, nationwide effort to roll back child labor laws, part of a broader campaign to concentrate even…
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That Strange Piece of Metal Origami Embodies All Elon Musk’s Flaws
Some of the problems Tesla is facing — including first-quarter profits that are down 9 percent from last year, stressful…
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My Late-in-Life Friendship With Helen Vendler
One makes so few new friends in older age — I mean, real friends, the ones you bond with and…
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The Wartime Music of Debussy and Komitas, Still Resonating Today
Kirill Gerstein’s immense recording project “Music in Time of War” surveys works by artists who witnessed World War I and…
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Broadway Opened 12 Shows in 9 Days. Here’s What That Looked Like.
Eva Noblezada and Jeremy Jordan arriving at "The Great Gatsby." Broadway just got busy. Really busy. Seven musicals and five…
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Trump Is Flirting With Quack Economics
More than 30 years ago, the economists Rudiger Dornbusch (one of my mentors) and Sebastian Edwards wrote a classic paper…