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Why the Rent Is So High
Good morning. It’s Monday. We’ll look at why affordable apartments are in such short supply in New York. We’ll also…
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Bolsonaro Is Afraid of Going to Jail, and He’s Right to Be
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — “I’m letting the scoundrels know,” President Jair Bolsonaro told supporters last year, “I’ll never be imprisoned!”…
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We Will All End Up Paying for Someone Else’s Beach House
A video of a North Carolina beach house being dismembered by a voracious ocean was a viral hit this spring.…
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Exercise Was the Perfect Coping Mechanism, Until It Wasn’t
When I was a junior in college, I joined the rowing team. The unthinkably expensive boats gliding down the Charles…
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Your Pandemic Puppy Was Not a Mistake
NASHVILLE — It was a Saturday night, close to midnight, when the weird little cough erupting from our dog Rascal’s…
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I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them
OXFORD, Miss. — Before classes start Aug. 22 at the university where I teach English, I’ll locate my new classroom,…
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Biden’s Remarkable Summer
Media narratives are driven by trajectory. Things get better or worse. People rise and fall. Maybe there is an upstart…
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A Model for an Evangelical Christianity Committed to Justice
In my first couple years of college I had a minor crisis of faith. I had grown up going to…
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Can a Third Party Succeed? Should It?
More from our inbox: Falling Short: The Taliban’s Word, and America’sPerfecting PropagandaAlaska Natives in Support of a Fuel ProjectThis didn’t…
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Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic
BAYREUTH, Germany — About 150 years ago, in a megalomaniac’s coup, Richard Wagner built a theater on a hilltop here…