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Thanksgiving Bash
Have we decided what the problem with Thanksgiving is going to be this year? We could start with the base-level perennials — the godawful travel ...
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Did the Midterms Save American Democracy?
For everyone furiously debating the condition of American democracy, the 2022 midterms were a beautiful thing — a gift to both sides of the ...
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Do Not Underestimate Trump’s Grip on Republican Voters
It has never been that Donald Trump defies political gravity as much as it has been that Republican elites refused to let him fall. This was how ...
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Gauging Our Return to Office and the Subways, One Tip at a Time
As Azusa Dance belted out the chorus of Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools” just past the turnstiles at the 34th Street-Herald Square subway ...
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Buffalo Emerges From a Monster Snowstorm, but More Is on the Way
BUFFALO — The city of Buffalo, where heavy snow is commonly met with a shrug and a shovel, awoke on Saturday to chest-high drifts left by a lake ...
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George Lois, 91, Who Brought the Counterculture to Advertising, Dies
George Lois, Madison Avenue’s best-known 20th-century art director, who put the counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s into postwar advertising and ...
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Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, Phoenix House Founder, Dies at 87
Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, the founder of Phoenix House, which branded itself the largest private, nonprofit therapeutic drug-treatment program in ...
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Ed Rudy, Chronicler of the Beatles’ First Trip to America, Dies at 93
On Feb. 7, 1964, when the Beatles were greeted by thousands of screaming fans at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a radio reporter named Ed ...
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Staughton Lynd, Historian and Activist Turned Labor Lawyer, Dies at 92
Staughton Lynd, a historian and lawyer who over a long and varied career organized schools for Black children in Mississippi, led antiwar ...
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It Was a Bad Week for Billionaires With Delusions of Saving the World
In recent years, a swelling chorus of Americans has grown critical of the nation’s bajillionaires. But in the extraordinary week gone by, that ...