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Ron DeSantis’s Race Problem
In July, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida appointed Jeffery Moore, a former tax law specialist with the Florida Department of…
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Coolio, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59
Coolio, the West Coast rapper whose gritty music and anthemic hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” helped define hip-hop in the 1990s,…
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In New York, NIMBYism Finally Outstays Its Welcome
Why is it so hard to build housing in New York? In search of an answer to this question, I…
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FOMO Helped Drive Up Housing Prices in the Pandemic. What Can We Expect Next?
Existing home prices in the United States soared 45 percent from December 2019 to June 2022, when Covid emerged and…
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Bill Plante, CBS News’s Man at the White House, Dies at 84
Bill Plante, who was one of the leading correspondents for CBS News for more than half a century, covering the…
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In Retirement, You May Not Need to Spend So Much
You're reading the Peter Coy newsletter, for Times subscribers only. A veteran business and economics columnist unpacks the biggest headlines ...
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Rita Gardner, an Original ‘Fantasticks’ Star, Is Dead at 87
Rita Gardner, who in a long cabaret and theater career earned an enduring place in stage history in 1960, when…
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What’s the Key to Understanding Donald J. Trump? Start With Queens.
CONFIDENCE MAN: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, by Maggie Haberman Donald Trump is too much…
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Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space
If you write a musical composition in homage to Morton Feldman’s “Rothko Chapel,” and if you premiere it in the…
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David Foreman, Hard-Line Environmentalist, Dies at 75
David Foreman, who as the co-founder of the environmental group Earth First! urged his followers to sabotage bulldozers, slash logging-truck…
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