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R.F. Kuang Is Curious About Something …
The author of “Babel” likes to raise questions that bother her — ones she hopes will bother her readers too.
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Elon Musk Said Tesla Buyout Plan Didn’t Involve ‘a Specific Number’
Under questioning, Mr. Musk said he hadn’t discussed how much money investors would put in to help him take his…
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Meghan Markle, Kate Middleton and …Lip Gloss?
I’ve been thinking, lately, about lip gloss. About the sickeningly sweet smell of Vanilla Birthday Cake that defined my late…
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Trans Kids Deserve Private Lives Too
Last year, I interviewed Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, for a piece I never…
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Please Don’t Feed the Debt Scolds
In March 2011 Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, chairs of a White House deficit-reduction commission, issued a frightening warning about…
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Finance
Elon Musk Says Saudi Fund Wanted to Take Tesla Private
Mr. Musk is testifying in a lawsuit filed by investors who claim that his statements about a plan to take…
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Elon Musk Says His Social Media Posts Did Not Drive Tesla’s Stock Price
The chief executive of Tesla testified in a federal civil trial about a 2018 plan to take the automaker private…
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Samuel West Takes Comfort in D&D, Mendelssohn and Ron Swanson’s Whiskey
The British actor, who appears in “All Creatures Great and Small” and “Slow Horses,” talks about bird-watching, history podcasts and…
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There’s a Line on George Santos’s Résumé That No One Can Cross Out
Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. We discussed President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents last week, but here we go again, with…
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Paul Harding Captures the Quiet Side of Calamity
In 1912, every resident of a mixed-race fishing community living on a small island called Malaga was evicted from their…