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YouTube Gave Me Everything. Then I Grew Up.
My life so far has often been distilled to numbers: 1.7 million subscribers, 1.8 million total followers, 155 million views.…
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The Great Construction Mystery
Here’s something odd: We’re getting worse at construction. Think of the technology we have today that we didn’t in the…
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Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System.
Doctors have long diagnosed many of our sickest patients with “demoralization syndrome,” a condition commonly associated with terminal illness that’s…
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Don’t Let Republican ‘Judge Shoppers’ Thwart the Will of Voters
For the 26th time in two years, the Texas attorney general Ken Paxton recently filed a lawsuit in federal court…
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‘S.N.L.’ Gives Comic Voice to the Downed Chinese Spy Balloon
Bowen Yang played the balloon wreckage as it floated off the Eastern Seaboard, in a wide-ranging episode hosted by Pedro…
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Fred Terna, Creator of Fiery Holocaust Paintings, Dies at 99
A prisoner at Auschwitz and three other camps, he dealt with his trauma in semiabstract art that depicted crematories, ovens…
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Jackie Rogers, Jet-Setting Fashion Designer, Dies at 90
An outspoken American who became a model for Coco Chanel, she partied with Europe’s elite before starting her own clothing…
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Bob Born, Who Brought Marshmallow Peeps to the Masses, Dies at 98
By mechanizing and greatly expanding production, he made the gooey yellow chicks an Easter favorite and a pop-culture phenomenon.
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Maybe We Should Convince Men That Paid Leave Is Their Idea
Barbara Reisman spent her career pushing for a better system of child care in America. She was the executive director…
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Their American Dream Is Being Washed Away
The house was supposed to last the Fuentes family for the rest of their lives. They barely got a few…
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