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World
The Chinese Dream, Denied
The world’s harshest Covid restrictions exemplify how Xi Jinping’s authoritarian excesses have rewritten Beijing’s longstanding social contract with its people.
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Sports
The Celtics Have Found a New Way to Be Better Than Everyone Else
Boston was the best defensive team last season en route to the N.B.A. finals. Not so much this year. A scorching offense has helped them to the best record this year.
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Newyork
How a ‘Golden Era for Large Cities’ Might Be Turning Into an ‘Urban Doom Loop’
The last thirty years “were a golden era for large cities,” Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, a professor of real estate and finance at Columbia Business School, wrote in November 2022: “A virtuous cycle of improving amenities (educational and cultural ...
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Newyork
A Native American Vision of Justice From 1722 Offers a Model for Today
Three hundred years ago, leaders of three British colonies and representatives of the Indigenous nations known as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy gathered in Albany, N.Y., to sign what is the oldest continuously recognized treaty in colonial American ...
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World
Your Wednesday Briefing
China has moved to stamp out anti-lockdown protests.
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World
Your Wednesday Briefing: The U.S. Beats Iran
Plus China cracks down on protests and the U.S. pledges more aid to Ukraine.
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US
7 New Escapes in the Caribbean
From an off-the-grid tropical hideaway to a reefside diving resort, these new hotels will take you far from anything that resembles snow and cold.
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World
As Haiti Unravels, U.S. Officials Push to Send in an Armed Foreign Force
After days of gunfights in early November, Haitian police officers emerged triumphant: They had finally liberated the nation’s biggest port from the gangs that had taken it over for two months. But when members of Haiti’s SWAT team returned to the ...
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World
Belarus’s architect of Western outreach dies suddenly, state media reports.
A top Belarusian official who led a failed attempt to thaw diplomatic relations between the nation’s Kremlin-allied government and the West died ...
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US
Turning Point for Garland as Justice Dept. Grapples With Trump Inquiries
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, a stoic former federal judge intent on restoring rule-of-law order at the Justice Department ...