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With Trump, Merrick Garland Can’t Afford to Miss
The two weeks since the F.B.I. descended on Mar-a-Lago have felt remarkably familiar. It’s not just that Donald Trump is…
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How About We Just Don’t Watch the ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel?
This article contains spoilers for the HBO series “Game of Thrones.” As I contemplate returning to King’s Landing with the…
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Kahleah Copper Leads Sky in Rout of Liberty in Game 2
One thing was evident early in the Game 2 playoff matchup between the Chicago Sky and the Liberty: If the…
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India in a Different Voice
In 2019 I received in the mail a small vinyl-covered booklet in light blue, embossed with three golden lions. It…
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Wonking Out: Virginia Woolf and Core Inflation
If you or someone you know has been looking for a place to live recently, you’re aware that the housing…
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The Herd Mentality Is All Around Us. I Still See Hope for Diversity of Thought.
There are times when things really throw you a curve as to what you thought human nature was. For me,…
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A Migrant Wave Tests New York City’s Identity as the World’s Sanctuary
The four buses crossed into Manhattan on Wednesday morning and turned off a bustling avenue onto a shadowed side street…
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Adams Endorses Primary Candidates, Hoping to Defeat Left-Wing Democrats
Most big-city mayors, especially those in the relative infancy of their tenures, typically try to avoid wading into fractious party…
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Where Are All the Manhattan Voters in August? Try the Hamptons.
AMAGANSETT, N.Y. — In the lush town green here one recent morning, waiting to get her nails done, sat just…
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Democrats Have Embraced Economics. Too Much?
I love this sentence in a recent book by Elizabeth Popp Berman: “For Republicans, economic reasoning remained a means to…