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What Donald Trump Would Do for $1 Billion
Not to spend too much time writing about Donald Trump this week, but I was struck by this report in…
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Eberhard Kornfeld, Art Dealer, Collector and Historian, Is Dead at 99
Ensconced in a 15th-century Swiss manor house, he became an expert on the old masters and later tangled with heirs…
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Imagine Your Last Day of Work Ever. Here’s Theirs.
Among life’s major milestones — think graduations, weddings, even annual events like birthdays and anniversaries — the retirement day is…
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What Are a Museum’s Obligations When It Shows a ‘Problematic’ Artist?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the responsibility an institution assumes once it exhibits an artist’s work.
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Mary Wells Lawrence, High-Profile Advertising Pioneer, Dies at 95
She was the first woman to own and run a major national advertising agency. Her company, Wells Rich Greene, was…
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A Way Back from Campus Chaos
Protesting the world’s wrongs has been a rite of passage for generations of American youth, buoyed by our strong laws…
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Donnie After Dark
Stormy was working blue, and the judge was seeing red. Justice Juan Merchan chided Donald Trump’s lawyer Susan Necheles, saying…
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And the Winner Is: Kendrick Lamar. And Old-School Hip-Hop.
The rap battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar is about more than whatever personal beefs these two men have with…
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Rita, Anita, My Mother and Me
Some Latina mothers teach their daughters how to spoon masa or plátano onto a corn husk or banana leaf when…
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The Limits of Moralism in Israel and Gaza
Foreign policy can make a mockery of moral certitude. You’re trying to master a landscape of anarchy policed by violence,…