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How New Yorkers Push the Limits
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll take a quick look at limits — speed limits and time limits — prompted by…
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Premier League Players Will No Longer Take a Knee Before Games
While Premier League soccer players will continue to take a knee to protest racism this season, they said Wednesday that…
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Barcelona Spent Its Way Into Crisis. Can It Now Spend Its Way Out?
Joan Laporta’s smile was hard to miss. Staring down from a vast digital billboard last month, the grinning image of…
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Footprints Discovery Suggests Ancient ‘Ghost Tracks’ May Cover the West
Scientists have discovered ancient human footprints in Utah, traces, they say, of adults and children who walked barefoot along a…
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Trump Has Big Plans for 2025
As he contemplates a third straight run for the presidency, Donald Trump has a multimillion-dollar political machine and a network…
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The Bad Faith of the New Religious Right
Produced by ‘The Argument’ The sweeping rise of Christian nationalism on the right has taken extreme forms since the election…
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This Is How the U.S. Will Stand With Taiwan
Vladimir Putin’s brutal attack on his Ukrainian neighbors has sparked global outrage — and forged unprecedented unity — among the…
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American Democracy Is Not the Beacon It Once Was for Africa’s Elite
NAIROBI — A Kenyan friend of mine who graduated from Harvard Business School recently told me that the United States…
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The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters
Blake Masters’s first campaign ad opens with a shot of the Sonoran Desert. A plaintive piano theme tinkles as Mr.…
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Are Participles a Thing of the Past?
I want to follow up on the topic of language evolution that I took up in my previous newsletter about…