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Here’s Something Southern Republican Governors Are Afraid Of
Last year, the United Auto Workers announced an ambitious plan to organize workers and unionize foreign-owned auto plants in the South. “One of our biggest goals coming out of this historic contract victory is to organize like we’ve never organized ...
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Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter
The company’s revenue was 15 percent higher compared with last year, and it solidified its standing as the entertainment company’s dominant streaming service.
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A ‘Nature School’ Meets in Brooklyn
A series of workshops hosted by the artist collective Field Meridians will try to get New Yorkers to open their eyes to the nature all around them.
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Some Words Feel Truer in Spanish
My earliest relationship with language was defined by rules. As an immigrant who came to this country from Peru at age 4, I spent half of my days in kindergarten occupied with learning the rules of the English language. There was the tricky ...
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NPR in Turmoil After It Is Accused of Liberal Bias
An essay from an editor at the broadcaster has generated a firestorm of criticism about the network on social media, especially among conservatives.
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Does It Seem Like the End Times Are Here? These Novels Know Better.
On the day my mother died, I sat by her bedside and read the Psalms. The room was quiet — the need for machines had passed — save for the sound of my voice and my mother’s labored breathing. Outside her room, the hospital went about its business ...
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The Very High Stakes of Failing to Help Ukraine
Since Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, a rare consensus has formed in Washington around this conviction: America must provide military support to Ukraine’s resistance. Three administrations and large majorities of both parties in Congress ...
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Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?
In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them.
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My Faith Forbade Eclipse Gazing. Now It Inspires My Art.
As a child growing up in the Hare Krishna community in the United States, I was forbidden to be outside during a solar eclipse. In our version of Vedic astronomy, eclipses are believed to be a deeply inauspicious time when the demon Rahu’s ...
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Larry David, Philosopher King
“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the HBO comedy series created by and starring Larry David, debuted way back in 1999 and comedy, television and the world have all changed significantly since. Yet somehow “Curb,”which comes to an end tonight after 12 seasons ...
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