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A history of forced population transfers sheds light on present conflicts.
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Arts
She Broke Barriers in Music. But She’s Uneasy About the Attention.
A new documentary tells the story of Orin O’Brien, a double bassist who became the only woman in the New…
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‘How to Dance in Ohio’: A Story About Autism and Connection
In a first for Broadway, openly autistic actors are playing the autistic characters in this new musical about a doctor…
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Farewell to the U.S.-China Golden Age
A lunch meeting about China this summer at the Upper East Side headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations felt…
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World
Johnson Said in 2015 Trump Was Unfit and Could Be ‘Dangerous’ as President
Speaker Mike Johnson, then a Republican state lawmaker, posted on social media that Donald J. Trump lacked the character and…
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Arts
A Father Stages the Unthinkable: Losing a Son in a School Shooting
Manuel Oliver has a one-man show about the life and death of his son, Joaquin, who was killed in the…
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World
In Arizona, Bad Feelings About the Economy Sour Some Voters on Biden
The White House has hailed new investments and new jobs, yet many voters in a battleground state are chafing at…
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The Squandered Potential of Tim Scott
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination this week having failed to make…
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With the Death Toll in Gaza Rising, Palestinians Are Not Just Numbers
After the Israeli military killed his older brother in an airstrike in Gaza in 2014, Ahmed Alnaouq says, he almost…
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Sigrid Nunez’s Art of Noticing
We began outside on Adirondack chairs still heavy with dew, the 72-year-old American novelist Sigrid Nunez preferring the shade. It…