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What Can Replace China as a Global Economic Engine?
China has apparently told its economists to stop talking — a P.R. tourniquet to keep the bad news from bleeding…
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Books
Unusual Suspects
Every child is a detective. It comes with the territory. Childhood is a constant state of trying to unravel the…
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News
A Hotbed of Distance Running Talent Emerges in Uganda
With a mile to go in the 2017 World Cross Country Championships, Joshua Cheptegei had one thing on his mind:…
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I Have a Choice to Make About My Blindness
I recently visited a local Mexican restaurant with my family. It was the first time we’d gone out together for…
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News
W.H.O. Ends Mpox Global Emergency
The News The World Health Organization announced on Thursday that mpox — previously known as monkeypox — no longer constituted…
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News
Is the World Really Turning Away from the United States?
Last year, the buzzword of the geopolitical memeplex was “polycrisis,” a term that seemed to capture the pervasive vibe of…
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News
I Went to Syria to See Biblical Devastation in a Land of Political Tragedy
JINDIRES, Syria — She has no memory of the earthquake that broke her back and swallowed her daughters. Khaira Al…
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Mikaela Shiffrin Wins Gold at the World Championships
Shiffrin’s seventh gold medal at the Alpine world skiing championships on Thursday eases the sting of a disappointing Olympics.
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Business
Disney Toasts a Century as Business and Political Challenges Mount
Walt Disney has been dead for nearly 57 years. In the coming weeks, however, he will begin greeting museum visitors…
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News
Bon Voyage, Boeing 747. You Really Did Change Everything.
SEATTLE — Some legends really are true, and indeed it is the case that two men on an Alaskan fishing…