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Which Country Will Win the Paris Olympics? Don’t Just Count Medals.
No nation officially wins the Olympics, but that doesn’t stop journalists and others from trying to keep score by counting gold, silver and bronze medals. Unfortunately, the two main approaches are equally flawed. The raw medal count overly favors ...
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News
Fact-Checking the Republican National Convention on Energy Claims
Several speakers focused on the sharp rise in gas and electricity prices under President Biden. We scrutinized their statements.
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News
Why Nursing Home Residents Still Suffer Despite Tough State Laws
For hours, John A. Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in Rhode Island. A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. The ...
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News
What’s the Best City for New College Graduates?
A recent study ranked 100 of the largest U.S. cities based on median rents, job opportunities and social metrics.
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Newyork
Is Black Wine the New Orange?
Once maligned, teinturier grapes — and the inky drinks they produce — are finding new fans. Here are the bottles to try.
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Newyork
The Tories Will Lose the Election. But What Will Labour Win?
A snap election is a rush to judgment on the state of a nation, and in Britain, the vote coming in less than six weeks appears likely to be a devastating referendum on the governing Conservative Party, which is heading for all but certain humiliation ...
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News
In a Surprise, Disney+ Becomes Profitable
The streaming service added 6 million subscriptions and made $47 million in its latest quarter, helping Disney deliver stronger-than-expected earnings.
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Newyork
The Peculiar Persistence of Trump-stalgia
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Lately, I’ve been seeing people repeat Ronald Reagan’s famous question, many of them apparently believing that they’re making a slam-dunk case for returning Donald Trump to power. Yet if you take the ...
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World
U.N. report says rebuilding all the homes destroyed in Gaza could take 80 years.
Rebuilding all the homes destroyed by Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip could take until the next century if the pace of reconstruction were to match what it was after wars there in 2014 and 2021, according to a United Nations report ...
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Newyork
When Banks Fail, Why Do We Keep Bailing Out Uninsured Depositors?
Michael Ohlrogge has a theory about the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the agency that makes sure ordinary depositors don’t lose their money when their bank goes bust. Ohlrogge, an associate professor at New York University Law School, argues ...