• Sports

The 10 biggest disappointments of the young MLB season: Teams, players, decisions to watch

admin9 May 2025

From the underachieving O's to the historically bad Rockies to struggling stars and underwhelming top trade targets, disappointment abounds.

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• lifestyle

No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines

admin9 May 2025

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most 21st-century autocrats are elected. Rather than violently suppress opposition like Castro or Pinochet, today’s autocrats convert ...

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• lifestyle

Can Democrats Win the Working Class and Save the Republic?

admin9 May 2025

Senator Chris Murphy on the Democrats’ “five alarm” crisis.

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• lifestyle

West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate

admin9 May 2025

It turned out to be easy to undermine West Point. All it took was an executive order from President Trump and a memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dictating what could and couldn’t be taught in the military and its educational institutions. In ...

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• News

Recession Warnings Are Everywhere, Except in the Data

admin8 May 2025

Americans are spending less at McDonald’s. Fewer container ships are expected at the Port of Los Angeles. Procter & Gamble is raising prices. Mattel is shifting production out of China. Evidence for the economic impact of President Trump’s trade wars ...

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• Style

$400,000 Homes in the District of Columbia, Missouri and South Carolina

admin8 May 2025

A condo in Washington, a 19th-century home in St. Charles and a ranch house in Clemson.

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• lifestyle

Can New Weight-Loss Drugs Help in a World Awash in Addictive Foods?

admin7 May 2025

Throughout my life I’ve been fat, thin and various sizes in between. Since I was a kid I’ve gained and lost weight repeatedly, putting on 20 pounds, taking it off, putting on 30 pounds and then losing it again. It has been a cycle of despair. The ...

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• lifestyle

Lifestyles of the Rich and Miserable

admin7 May 2025

You’re reading the Ross Douthat newsletter, for Times subscribers only. The columnist reflects on culture and politics, but mostly culture. Get it with a Times subscription.There are three broad spirits in which American television portrays the rich ...

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• Arts

At Milestone Films, Passing the Torch, but Keeping the Flame Alive

admin6 May 2025

The distributor’s owners, Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, made the unusual choice to give it away. Their successor is Maya Cade of the Black Film Archive.

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• lifestyle

How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

admin6 May 2025

transcript How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez discusses Trump’s tariffs and where Democrats have gone wrong. You go back a couple of decades in American politics — [CLIP] Coverage of election ’96 ...

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