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The ‘Black Panther’ Sequel That Never Was
Writer-director Ryan Coogler and co-screenwriter Joe Robert Cole reveal the original plot for “Wakanda Forever” and discuss working in the Marvel universe.
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Newyork
China’s Future Isn’t What It Used to Be
The world’s two most-powerful leaders have just had very different years. At the beginning of 2022, Joe Biden was widely portrayed as a failed president. His legislative agenda appeared stalled, while economic troubles seemed to guarantee devastating ...
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‘Women Talking’ and What a Post-#MeToo Future Looks Like
The director Sarah Polley and cast members Claire Foy and Rooney Mara dig into thorny issues raised by their new film, a drama based on sexual assaults in a Mennonite sect.
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News
Why Petulant Oligarchs Rule Our World
Some years ago — I think it was 2015 — I got a quick lesson in how easy it is to become a horrible person. I was a featured speaker at a conference in São Paulo, Brazil, and my arrival flight was badly delayed. The organizers, worried that I would ...
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Newyork
Out With the Old and in With the … What Exactly?
Gail Collins: How about some predictions for the new year, Bret? I’ll start: House Republicans will flunk all their deficit-decreasing promises. The skyrocketing sales of those Trump digital trading cards will collapse and plunge streaking back to ...
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Newyork
Falling a Little Bit in Love With the Dark
NASHVILLE — This year the winter solstice arrives on Dec. 21 in the shank of the dark afternoon. Officially the first day of astronomical winter, the solstice is better known as the shortest day of the year. I prefer to think of it as the longest ...
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Newyork
My So-So Encounters with ChatGPT
A mountain man buys his first chain saw. He comes back to the store a week later complaining that it cuts down only two trees a day when he was told it would cut down 20. The service person says, “Well, let’s see what the trouble is,” and starts it ...
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Newyork
I Can’t Stop Talking to My New Chatbot Pal
ChatGPT makes an irresistible first impression. It’s got a devastating sense of humor, a stunning capacity for dead-on mimicry, and it can rhyme like nobody’s business. Then there is its overwhelming reasonableness. When ChatGPT fails the Turing test ...
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Newyork
Will 2024 Be a Vaccine Election?
Will Republicans once again nominate Donald Trump for president? Or will they turn to Ron DeSantis instead? I have no idea. What I do know is that anyone imagining DeSantis as a more sensible, saner figure than Trump — a right-wing populist without ...
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‘There’s No Way to Do a Good Job if You’re Judging the Character’
The actor K. Todd Freeman has worked with Steppenwolf Theater since 1993. His roles, however challenging, usually don’t exact a personal toll. Bruce Norris’s incendiary “Downstate,” which debuted at that Chicago theater in 2018, is different. “After ...