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In ‘Franklin,’ Michael Douglas Uses His Charm to Bankroll America
A new Apple TV+ series dramatizes the years Benjamin Franklin spent in France, leveraging diplomacy and guile to secure his…
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Review: ‘The Wiz’ Eases Back to Broadway
Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original…
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4 Takeaways From the Hearing on Antisemitism at Columbia University
Four Columbia University officials, including the university’s president and the leaders of its board, went before Congress on Wednesday to…
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A Nigerian Chess Master in Times Square
Tunde Onakoya is trying to break a record for the longest chess marathon. And he’s playing his games in the…
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Tripling the World’s Nuclear Energy Capacity Is a Fantasy
World leaders are not unaware of the nuclear industry’s long history of failing to deliver on its promises, or of…
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Let Young People Live With Strangers
For many adults, the first and last time they willingly submit to living with a total stranger is their freshman…
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Quick. Someone Get This Book a Doctor.
Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum…
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Marjane Satrapi on Resistance in Iran: ‘A Real Revolution Is Cultural’
The author, known for her “Persepolis” series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, inspired…
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This Poet Flirts With Sentimentality, but Averts It With Wit
In “The Sorrow Apartments,” Andrea Cohen’s signature maneuver is a kind of twist that shifts a poem away from the…
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St. Vincent Dives Headfirst Into the Darkness
On a recent Tuesday night in a dressing room of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, Annie Clark, the 41-year-old musician who…