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World
Inside India’s Cram City
Every summer in northwest India, as hot winds sweep up from the deserts of Rajasthan, trains packed with students from the countryside trundle into Kota, a small city dense with clusters of test-prep centers. All told, roughly 150,000 students arrive ...
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Books
A Rosier View of Roald Dahl
“Teller of the Unexpected,” an elegant new biography, sidesteps the ugly side of the children’s book author while capturing his grandiose, tragedy-specked life.
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Books
An Oral History of Rikers Island
In a new book, a wide range of voices weigh in on the notorious jail complex.
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Newyork
Why the Ranks of Populism Are Filled With ‘Nasty’ Characters
Over the past eight years, the Republican Party has been transformed from a generally staid institution representing the allure of low taxes, conservative social cultural policies and laissez-faire capitalism into a party of blatant chaos and ...
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Newyork
The Costuming of George Santos
Throughout history, clothes have maketh the con man.
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News
Ecuador Tried to Curb Drilling and Protect the Amazon. The Opposite Happened.
YASUNÍ NATIONAL PARK, Ecuador — In a swath of lush Amazon rainforest here, near some of the last Indigenous people on Earth living in isolation, workers recently finished building a new oil platform carved out of the wilderness. Teams are drilling in ...
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Newyork
Sweatpants on Trial: How Thom Browne Beat Adidas in Court
Could a trademark lawsuit over stripes change how we think about athletic wear?
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Newyork
Why Must We Go About Our Lives With an Eye on the Nearest Exit?
Two years ago, in Atlanta, 22-year-old Rico Marley was arrested in a Publix supermarket. He was wearing body armor and carrying six loaded weapons, including a semiautomatic rifle and a 12-gauge shotgun. Prosecutors, as my newsroom colleague Richard ...
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Newyork
How the Coachella of Economics Can Survive Covid
Attendance at the world’s biggest conference of economists was down by half this year, and that had some attendees worrying that the annual conclave was at risk of unraveling like a knitted sweater. People who were disappointed not to see their ...
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Newyork
The Chaos Caucus Is Now in Charge
Things are looking up for Kevin McCarthy! Last week it took 15 agonizing roll call votes spread over five days of public humiliation for him to get elected to his dream job as speaker of the House. This week it took him just one drama-free vote on ...