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Stuck in a Starter Home
If buying a home is an inexorable part of the American dream, so is the next step: eventually selling that…
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Why the New Human Case of Bird Flu Is So Alarming
The third human case of H5N1, reported on Thursday in a farmworker in Michigan who was experiencing respiratory symptoms, tells…
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Civil Liberties Make for Strange Bedfellows
Last Thursday, Sonia Sotomayor helped protect the country from Donald Trump, and she did it in an unexpected way —…
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The Long Life of Yuppie Scum
TRIUMPH OF THE YUPPIES: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation, by Tom McGrath In 1967, a…
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After Trump’s Conviction, a National Enquirer Editor Sends His Regrets
For Barry Levine, a former top journalist at the supermarket tabloid, the former president’s trial was its own kind of…
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Anatomy of a Success Story: How One Artist Broke Through
Hugo McCloud has gone from designing fountains and furniture to his fifth show with an established New York gallery.
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The Floating Traffic Jam That Freaked Us All Out
Southern California appeared to be under siege from a blockade. More than 50 enormous vessels bobbed in the frigid waters…
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I Supervised New York City Judges. Juan Merchan Put on a Master Class in the Trump Trial.
I spent almost 13 years as a judge in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. I supervised judges presiding over a…
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Yoav Gallant Has Shown Defiance. Will He Again?
Last month, Yoav Gallant told Israelis that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was leading the nation astray. Mr. Gallant, the defense…
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U Tin Oo, Embattled Pro-Democracy Leader in Myanmar, Dies at 97
Once one of his country’s most powerful figures, he helped found its main opposition party. “I had to face up…