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With Rout, Real Madrid Writes a Bitter Ending for Liverpool
That Real Madrid delivered another memorable Champions League victory was no surprise. It was the manner of Liverpool’s defeat that…
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Books
An Extraordinary Memoir of a Black American Boyhood
Joseph Earl Thomas’s remarkable debut, “Sink,” recounts the coming-of-age of a young man for whom poverty, violence, drug abuse and…
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Books
Public Libraries, and Profiling Paul Harding
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen At a time when public libraries and librarians are…
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What if Hale County, Ala., Is the Heart of America?
NASHVILLE — Like nearly all the hurry-past places in this vast country, the Alabama most people experience is only what…
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Biology Is Dangerously Outpacing Policy
The original source of the coronavirus pandemic remains unconfirmed. While it was likely the result of a spillover from animals…
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The Problem With Russia Is Russia
KRAKOW, Poland — One year ago this Tuesday, Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of the Russian-backed separatist republics of Donetsk…
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Arts
For a Film About Korean Adoptees, a Group Effort
In “Return to Seoul,” a Parisian repeatedly visits her birth country. Neither the filmmaker nor the star were adopted, but…
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Relentless Nostalgia Is Numbing Our Brains
I never thought I’d be sentimental for Budweiser’s “Whassup?” commercials. But after this year’s woefully derivative slate of Super Bowl…
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Wonking Out: Why Growth Can Be Green
Heads up: I did a podcast with Ezra Klein earlier this week, mostly focused on inflation — which continues to…
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The Smartphone and the Sources of Teenager Despair
American teenagers, and especially American teenage girls, are increasingly miserable: more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts and act on them,…