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Jane Smiley’s Folk Music Novel Hits Some Bum Notes
“Lucky” features a 1970s singer-songwriter who finds improbable success.
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The Humbling of Marjorie Taylor Greene
In our Trump-era politics, there’s always the question of how crazy is too crazy — how disruptive and extreme an…
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Patients Are Losing Trust in Doctors. Medicine Suffers.
I arrived at the hospital one recent morning to find a team of doctors gathered just outside a patient room.…
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Why Losing Political Power Now Feels Like ‘Losing Your Country’
Is partisan hostility so deeply enmeshed in American politics that it cannot be rooted out? Will Donald Trump institutionalize democratic…
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Biden’s Deep Miscalculation on Israel and Gaza
Nicholas Kristof asks: Where has our moral president gone?
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This Town Had a Reputation Problem. Premier League Soccer Changed Things.
Having a team in the world’s richest sports competition might alter how people think of Luton, a place long dogged…
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In Coral Fossils, Searching for the First Glow of Bioluminescence
A new study resets the timing for the emergence of bioluminescence back to millions of years earlier than previously thought.
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‘Mary Jane’ Review: When Parenting Means Intensive Care
Amy Herzog’s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.
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To Be (Visibly) Jewish in the Ivy League
Netanel Crispe, from Danby, Vt., is a 21-year-old junior studying American history at Yale. He is also, to his knowledge,…
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I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on…