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‘A Building Employee Greeted Us With a Broad Smile Every Day’
Recalling a first job, trading places in a crowded subway car and more reader tales of New York City in…
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Stuck in a Starter Home
If buying a home is an inexorable part of the American dream, so is the next step: eventually selling that…
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Why the New Human Case of Bird Flu Is So Alarming
The third human case of H5N1, reported on Thursday in a farmworker in Michigan who was experiencing respiratory symptoms, tells…
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Civil Liberties Make for Strange Bedfellows
Last Thursday, Sonia Sotomayor helped protect the country from Donald Trump, and she did it in an unexpected way —…
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I Supervised New York City Judges. Juan Merchan Put on a Master Class in the Trump Trial.
I spent almost 13 years as a judge in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. I supervised judges presiding over a…
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Yoav Gallant Has Shown Defiance. Will He Again?
Last month, Yoav Gallant told Israelis that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was leading the nation astray. Mr. Gallant, the defense…
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U Tin Oo, Embattled Pro-Democracy Leader in Myanmar, Dies at 97
Once one of his country’s most powerful figures, he helped found its main opposition party. “I had to face up…
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Your Mind Is Being Fracked
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ The steady dings of notifications. The 40 tabs that greet you when you open…
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Oil and Gas Companies Are Trying to Rig the Marketplace
Many of us focused on the problem of climate change have been waiting for the day when renewable energy would…
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Sam Butcher, Who Gave the World Precious Moments, Dies at 85
His childlike porcelain characters thrilled and inspired generations of collectors. They also made him a millionaire.