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What Does Hollywood Owe Its Jewish Founders?
The Jews who founded Hollywood — and make no mistake, the big studio heads were overwhelmingly Jewish — shared several…
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When Oprah Loved Trump
There is one question about Donald Trump that I’m asked above all others, as someone whose professional life is devoted…
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A Nuclear Iran Has Never Felt More Possible
The uncertainty ushered in by the death of Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash, just weeks after an…
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Forget the Polls, President Biden. Our Readers Have Some Strategy Ideas.
The results of the latest New York Times/Siena College polls showing Donald Trump leading President Biden in five crucial battleground…
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Pay Caitlin Clark What She’s Worth
In 1969, the National Basketball Association was a relatively young professional basketball league fighting to establish itself. It was generating…
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Fate of Retired Research Chimps Still in Limbo
The National Institutes of Health, which owns the chimps at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico, has no plans…
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A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years
John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his…
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At MoMA, LaToya Ruby Frazier Asks What Our Monuments Should Be
The documentary photographer honors those who turn their energies to a social good. And our critic says this artist does…
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Tems, R&B’s Golden Child, Dials In
When the ground began to shake, rocking her bed to-and-fro like a raft in a current, Temilade Openiyi briefly wondered…
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‘Hit Man’ Review: It’s a Hit, Man
Glen Powell stars in one of the year’s funniest, sexiest, most enjoyable movies — and somehow it’s surprisingly deep, too.