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Why Are We Gambling With America’s Future?
Over the past few decades, in a surge of bipartisan national self-confidence, the federal government has borrowed a lot of…
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Peter Schey, Tenacious Lawyer Who Defended Migrant Rights, Dies at 77
He won the right to services like school and health care for people illegally crossing the border into the U.S.…
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Penny Simkin, ‘Mother of the Doula Movement,’ Dies at 85
As a childbirth educator and maternal advocate, she promoted a profession that provides comfort to women giving birth and offers…
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The Teen Trend of Sexual Choking
More from our inbox: Emergency Abortions and the Supreme CourtOur Father, Who Led Columbia, Would Be Saddened TodayHiring DiscriminationTrump’s Own…
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Disney Scrapped Their Show. An Unlikely Champion Saved It.
Canceled by Disney before it even aired, “The Spiderwick Chronicles” found a new home at Roku and has so far…
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‘Terrestrial Verses’ Review: Sitting in the Bureaucrat’s Seat
Ordinary Iranians face a maze of byzantine rules and small indignities in this series of gripping vignettes.
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A Wanderer, Ravel and Suzanne Farrell: Life Is Good at City Ballet
The spring season at New York City Ballet opened with an all-Balanchine program and a vintage miniature from 1975: “Errante,”…
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How Postwar Paris Changed the Expat Artists
An exhibition at the Grey Art Museum explores the fervid postwar scene in Paris, where Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell and…
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Anthony Roth Costanzo, Star Countertenor, to Lead Opera Philadelphia
Costanzo will be a rare figure in classical music: an artist in his prime who is also working as an…
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For the Sake of Democracy, Celebrate Mike Johnson
We’ve seen movies aplenty in which a deeply flawed protagonist, someone we’d pretty much given up hope on, has a…