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The Return of Combat Joe
Whenever Joe Biden goes on the offensive, there are observations that he’s being combative, as if it were foreign to…
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Our Memory Is Flawed. Luckily, God’s Isn’t.
In August, my sister and I took my mom on a trip to Galveston Island on the Texas Gulf Coast.…
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Virginia Dwan, Behind-the-Scenes Force in the Art World, Dies at 90
Virginia Dwan, who through her galleries in Los Angeles and New York and her personal financial support helped fuel the…
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Children’s Drownings Mark the End of a Mother’s Descent
For the mother and her three children, the three-block walk to the Coney Island beach was a familiar one. It…
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‘She Was Not a Talented Singer, but I Enjoyed It Nonetheless’
Mavis and Amy Dear Diary: I was walking my pit bull terrier, Mavis Staples, north on a crowded Franklin Avenue…
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Invent! Invent! Repeat.
We need better technologies to enable a better politics. But we need better politics to create better technologies. Maybe, just…
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‘Are You American?’: The Question I Couldn’t Answer
Rumi Hara is a cartoonist, an illustrator and the author of “The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories.” The Times…
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Math Is the Great Secret
As a boy in the first weeks of algebra class, I felt confused and then I went sort of numb.…
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The Art of Leaving Baseball Behind
As Blake McFarland came bounding through the doors of Gallery 85, Patrick Powell figured he was looking at yet another…
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A Fight Over Nantucket’s Bluff Pits Neighbor Against Neighbor
Houses along Baxter Road on the island of Nantucket have always been precarious real estate: property at the edge of…