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Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Politically Obtuse Plutocrats
All Wall Street wants is a good hypocrite — someone who can convince the Republican base that he or she shares its extremism, but whose real priority is to enrich the 1 percent. Is that too much to ask? Apparently, yes. If you’re not a politics ...
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What Biden Needs to Tell Us
Sometimes social revolutions emerge from ordinary ideas. In the 17th and 18th centuries, thinkers like William Petty, David Hume and Adam Smith popularized a concept called “division of labor.” It’s a simple notion. If I specialize in doing what I’m ...
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News
Year of the Vegetable
In for 2024: meatless meals, project cooking, luxurious breakfasts and energizing snacks.
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Newyork
The Persecution of Harvard’s Claudine Gay
Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard who announced her resignation on Tuesday after her problematic congressional testimony about antisemitism and mounting questions about missing citations and quotation marks in her published work, was, in part ...
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Books
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Strata-East Records
This label founded in 1971 gave Afrocentric and psychedelic jazz a home, and found a breakout hit with Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson. Take a guided tour through its deep catalog.
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Newyork
Want a New You in the New Year? Try Committing to the Bit.
Personalities are cool. Personas are cooler.
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Books
They Can’t All Be Nominated for Best Picture, Can They?
It’s a very competitive year for the top Oscar. With precursor awards like the Golden Globes coming soon, here’s what may make the cut.
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Books
‘The Color Purple’ Tips Its Hat to Classic Black Musicals
The new movie has so many references to Hollywood gems like “Stormy Weather” and early jazz shorts, it can be viewed as a Black film syllabus.
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Newyork
I Left My Faith. God Didn’t Flinch.
The first time I intentionally broke a Jewish law, I was in college. It was a Saturday. I glanced around furtively, though I was alone in my dorm room. Then I flicked off the light, an act forbidden on the Sabbath. I flicked it on again. Around me ...
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Books
‘Ferrari’ and ‘The Killer’: 1 Cinematographer, 2 Very Different Looks
Erik Messerschmidt worked with the directors Michael Mann and David Fincher to create cohesive worlds that feel nothing alike.