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Retail Sales Fell in November, Despite Black Friday
With food and gas prices still high, U.S. shoppers were more reluctant to spend on more discretionary items as the…
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World
European Central Bank Raises Rates Half a Point, Moderating Its Pace
But the bank warned that interest rates would “still have to rise significantly” to tame inflation.
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News
An Unvaccinated Military Puts Our National Security at Risk
Ninety-eight percent of the U.S. military is vaccinated against Covid-19. That success is due, in large part, to a summer…
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News
Once You See the Truth About Cars, You Can’t Unsee It
In American consumer lore, the automobile has always been a “freedom machine” and liberty lies on the open road. “Americans…
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Business
An Alternate Reality: How Russia’s State TV Spins the Ukraine War
Leaked emails detail how Russia’s biggest state broadcaster, working with the nation’s security services, mined right-wing American news and Chinese…
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News
The Qatar World Cup Is Peak ‘Sportswashing.’ But Will It Work?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. When France…
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World
‘Nightmare’ Warehouse Fire Erases Evidence in Many Unsolved Cases
Lawyers say evidence in cold cases and bids for exoneration disappeared or was ruined when a Police Department storage facility…
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News
Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive
The elusive author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “Mason & Dixon” has sold his papers to the Huntington Library. It includes…
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News
After a Frantic Year, It’s Time for ‘Slow Birding’
A new book borrows from the slow food movement to propose a more thoughtful, less competitive form of bird-watching.
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Food
Our 20 Most Popular Recipes of 2022
Readers loved low-effort, low-cost dishes that don’t skimp on flavor or fun.