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Newyork
Who’s Afraid of Black History?
Lurking behind the concerns of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, over the content of a proposed high school course in African American Studies, is a long and complex series of debates about the role of slavery and race in American classrooms ...
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Newyork
The Right Don’t Need No Education
Ron DeSantis, who is currently governor of Florida and wants to become president, has been trying to position himself as America’s leading crusader against wokeness. And lately higher education has become his most visible target. He picked a very ...
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US
Bing’s A.I. Chat Reveals Its Feelings: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’
In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.
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Newyork
The Shock of Wearable Clothes
Amid all the noise, Proenza Schouler and Eckhaus Latta go radically quiet.
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Newyork
My Friend Won’t Leave Her Abusive Husband. What Do I Do?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the support we can give friends stuck in dangerous relationships.
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Newyork
Biden’s 46 Words About Israel at a Critical Moment
I woke up on Saturday morning, read the news from Israel that at least 50,000 Israelis had just demonstrated once more against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to strip the Israeli Supreme Court of its independence and put it instead under ...
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Newyork
Can a Police Officer Accused of Spying for China Ever Clear His Name?
Federal prosecutors said Baimadajie Angwang was an agent for China who used his N.Y.P.D. job to report on Tibetans. Then, with scant explanation, they abandoned the case.
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Newyork
Greta Thunberg: ‘The World Is Getting More Grim by the Day’
There is genuinely no precedent in the modern history of geopolitics for the climate activist Greta Thunberg. Four and a half years ago, she began “striking” outside of Swedish parliament — a single teenager with a single sign. She was 15. In just a ...
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News
President Biden Is Not Backing Off His Big-Government Agenda
In his first appearance before a Republican House, the president renewed calls for large new economic programs and offered no concessions on federal spending.
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Newyork
Revisiting the Summer of Stagflation
I don’t know whether there will be any surprises in the State of the Union address. I do know that the background to the speech will be very different from what a great majority of pundits expected just a few months ago. After all, at this point Joe ...