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World
Unease in the West as Slovakia Appears Set to Join the Putin Sympathizers
The front-runner in the parliamentary vote has pledged “not to send a single cartridge” to neighboring Ukraine, a sign of the flagging European support for a victim of Russian aggression.
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Newyork
Why Can’t We Stop Unauthorized Immigration? Because It Works.
‘We’re getting no support on this national crisis,’ Mayor Eric Adams said in September at a town-hall-style gathering on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He was talking about the influx of transnational migrants who have landed in the city’s shelter ...
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Science
A Nobel Prize Might Lower a Scientist’s Impact
A team of researchers at Stanford find that older scientists are less productive after winning major awards like the Nobel and the MacArthur Fellowship.
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Newyork
Why Unions Are Good for America
As the United Automobile Workers strike continues, we’re likely to hear grumbling about labor unions. “They killed the auto industry once, and now they’re trying to do it again,” some will say. Or “They’re corrupt.” Or “They’re Luddites resisting ...
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Newyork
Raising Kids in Single-Parent Households
Readers react to a guest essay arguing that the growing number of such households is bad for the children.
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US
When a Drug Crisis Collides With the Campaign Trail
The official toxicology report states that Andrea Cahill’s son died at 19 years old from an accidental fentanyl overdose. But more than three years after Tyler Cahill’s death in his childhood bedroom, she doesn’t believe that. It was a poisoning, she ...
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Books
Major Directors, Minor Running Times
Wes Anderson, Pedro Almodóvar and Godfrey Reggio have films this fall that are less than an hour each.
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Newyork
There Is Only One Way to Fix the National Budget
The shutdown of the federal government that appears imminent is not just a political failure but also a failure of the imagination. Driving this particular stalemate is a small group of hard-right Republicans incensed over House Speaker Kevin ...