People
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Newyork
The Decolonization of Christianity Is Not Complete
For Black History Month, I’m profiling individuals who work in religious arenas for reparations to Black Americans. Last week, I featured Gregory Thompson, a former pastor and the founder of Voices Underground, a nonprofit creative firm that helps ...
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News
Fixing Social Security and Medicare: Where the Parties Stand
Republicans and Democrats have sharply divergent approaches to repairing the programs. Any solutions will affect younger workers as much as retirees.
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Newyork
The Perfect Retirement Investment Nobody Wants
Two of your biggest financial risks in retirement involve your health, but they’re almost opposed to each other. One is that you will require expensive long-term care early on. You will probably die young, but not before going broke from nursing home ...
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World
Nicaragua Strips Citizenship From Hundreds Days After Prisoner Release
The country’s increasingly authoritarian government stripped more than 300 people of their citizenship, including political prisoners recently released and sent to the United States.
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Newyork
DeSantis May Have Been Right
In January, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida announced he would ban a draft curriculum proposed by the College Board for a new Advanced Placement course in African American studies, criticizing the educational merit of the course. This month the College ...
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World
Spain Allows Legal Gender Change Without a Medical Evaluation
A new law will allow people 16 and older to change their registered gender without undergoing psychological and medical evaluations to show gender dysphoria.
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Newyork
The Case for Chilling
Sheila Liming, the author of “Hanging Out,” argues that unstructured time is essential to our cultural vitality. Down with calendar invites; long live the bocce league.
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Books
Amiri Baraka’s ‘Blues People’ Comes Home to the Apollo
The trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn will premiere “The Blues and Its People,” a suite inspired by Baraka’s influential text, to mark its 60th anniversary.
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World
Shortages of Shelter and Medical Supplies Pose Dangers to Quake Survivors
A week after a powerful quake struck Turkey and Syria, the combined death toll surpassed 35,000. With more than a million homeless in Turkey alone, there is a desperate need for temporary housing.
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World
One Week After Quake, Relief Efforts Stymied by Lack of Supplies and Housing
More than 31,600 people in Turkey and more than 3,500 in Syria have died in the earthquake, the deadliest in Turkey since 1939.