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Charles Koppelman, Force in the Music Industry and Beyond, Dies at 82
A dealmaker and superstar matchmaker, he worked with artists like Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton and Tracy Chapman. Later he was chairman of Martha Stewart Living.
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The Table for Trump’s Antisemitic Banquet Was Set Long Ago
The former president, who is running for his former office, invites to his home one of the most notorious antisemites in the United States, who brings along a well-known Holocaust denier. So far, to my knowledge, the only member of Donald Trump’s ...
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Does Inflation Disproportionately Hurt the Poor?
Overzealously fighting inflation to help lower-income workers might actually do the opposite.
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Protect Our Democracy. Support Local News.
Like a lot of folks, I have been thinking quite a bit lately about how to shore up our democracy. We voted in November, and that seems to have gone pretty well. Election deniers and conspiracy-mongers running in swing states lost. Common-sense ...
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Harvard, Herschel Walker and ‘Tokenism’
We are at a moment in which tokenism is on trial. This is true both in terms of the Supreme Court’s consideration of affirmative action in higher education and in terms of the candidacy of the former running back and political airhead Herschel Walker ...
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Bob Chapek Didn’t Believe in Disney Magic
I am one of the many devoted Disney fans around the world. We spend hundreds of dollars on annual passes that let us go to the theme parks as often as we want, and many of us proudly wear Disney-inspired clothes while visiting them. The hard-core ...
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Outrage Over Trump’s Dinner With Antisemites
More from our inbox: Inciting Mass ShootingsThe Supreme Court, in TroubleClimate and the G.O.P.Long Lines to VoteFormer President Donald J. Trump addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition’s conference in Las Vegas on a video call this month.Credit ...
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Michael Pertschuk, Antismoking and Auto Safety Crusader, Dies at 89
As an obscure but muscular congressional staffer and chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, he helped usher into law a raft of consumer protections.
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How to Watch the Christmas Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center
The 90th annual celebration will take place on Wednesday and feature performances by Gwen Stefani, Alicia Keys, Blake Shelton and others.
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Melody Miller, Trusted Aide to the Kennedys, Dies at 77
She worked with the family for over 40 years, mostly for Senator Ted Kennedy. But her duties went far beyond the office.