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Behind Putin’s Potemkin Vote, Real Support. But No Other Choices.
Many Russians say they back their president, but it is far less clear what they might do if they were…
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Does Everyone Want to Be on the ‘Mommy Track’?
When I caught up recently with Liz Koelsch, one of the moms that my friend Jessica Bennett profiled for our…
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World
First Ship Carrying Food Aid Arrives in Gaza
A humanitarian aid ship arrived on Friday in Gaza for the first time since the start of the war, a…
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Books
Gene Wilder and Frida Kahlo in Their Own Words (for Better and Worse)
These documentaries draw us in by giving the sense that we’re getting the story straight from the artists. But we’re…
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With the Capital One-Discover Deal, Credit Holds All the Cards
A fight has commenced over Capital One’s effort to acquire Discover, a deal that would birth an enormous credit-card company…
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How Education and Experience Can Help Prisoners Achieve Parole
More from our inbox: Close Call on Jan. 6: Perhaps the Secret Service Helped Save DemocracyA Faulty Analogy on the…
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America Has No Official Language. Instead It Has Hundreds.
Nearly 400 years ago, Walloon-speaking religious refugees from near what is today roughly the French-Belgian border arrived in a Lenape-speaking…
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News
Switching the Clocks Twice a Year Isn’t Just Annoying. It’s Deadly.
An hour of the day will be unceremoniously snatched away on Sunday as we “spring forward” to daylight saving time.…
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World
José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen, Central to U.S. Gaza Aid Plan, Aims to Ramp Up
Since October, organizers and Palestinian cooks working with the World Central Kitchen — the aid organization founded by the renowned…
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Nervous Democrats Press Biden on Gaza Ahead of State of the Union
Mainstream Democratic lawmakers want the president to speak out more forcefully for the policies that his administration has embraced, including…