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I Started Playing My Sax Outdoors. Then the Fans Came.
When your rehearsal space is the bank of the Hudson, the audience is a bit unconventional.
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The Best Parts of Being a Football Fan Are Off the Field
The N.F.L. season began with dramatic injuries. Luckily, for the league, we fans focus our energy on so many things…
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Why Can’t We Stop Unauthorized Immigration? Because It Works.
‘We’re getting no support on this national crisis,’ Mayor Eric Adams said in September at a town-hall-style gathering on Manhattan’s…
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The Lawyer Trying to Hold Gunmakers Responsible for Mass Shootings
Brian Hogan was standing in front of a wrought-iron tree bench, head bowed, as Josh Koskoff approached him. Listen to…
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Shohei Ohtani’s Impossible, Unrivaled, Bittersweet Season
In late August, a few days after the remnants of Hurricane Hilary hit the Southern California coast as only the…
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Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That?
A decade or so ago, Americans were feeling pretty positive about higher education. Public-opinion polls in the early 2010s all…
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Why I Love Doing Homework (Even If My Kids Hate It)
It’s an opportunity to walk alongside them as they commit to the work of learning.
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How the War in Ukraine Turned Tennis Into a Battlefield
It was a few days before the start of Wimbledon this summer, and Elina Svitolina, just off a flight from…
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When Your ‘Doppelganger’ Becomes a Conspiracy Theorist
In June, the Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein was sitting in the dark gray booth of a recording studio…
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I’m Dying of Cancer. Do I Have to Tell Anyone?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the information we owe our loved ones when terminally ill.