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Katie Couric: What Barbara Walters Made Possible for Women
Every female broadcast journalist working today owes a debt of gratitude to the O.G., Barbara Walters, who died Friday at…
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The Invention of Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik had had enough. In the wake of the 2018 midterms, the young congresswoman was sick of commuting to…
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World
Jean Franco, 98, Pioneering Scholar of Latin American Literature, Dies
She infused her work with political and feminist perspectives and insisted that art had to be understood within its social…
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Business
How Barbara Walters Went From ‘Today Girl’ to Pioneering Media Star
Long before she became the first woman to co-anchor a network newscast and the foremost prime-time interviewer of heads of…
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World
Benedict was criticized for his leadership of the church’s sex abuse scandal.
The clerical sex abuse scandal festered and then broke open under Pope John Paul II in the years that Cardinal…
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The Choice of a Medically Assisted Death
Readers discuss a column by Ross Douthat criticizing Canada’s medical assistance in dying law.
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World
His resignation as pope in 2013 shocked the world.
ROME — When Benedict XVI resigned in 2013, he was the first pope to do so in six centuries, and…
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For Conservative Catholics in U.S., Pope Benedict’s Death Is Loss of a Hero
Even after his retirement a decade ago, the former pope remained the unofficial figurehead of the conservative wing of the…
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Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington, New Orleans Musical Luminary, Dies at 79
A guitarist and singer, he was a quintessential local star, mixing blues, funk and jazz through six decades of club…
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The Dark Possibilities of A.I. and Art
At 19, when I began drafting my webcomic, I had just been flung into adulthood. I felt a little awkward,…