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Newyork
Time Is Way Weirder Than You Think
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ It’s not an exaggeration to say that “clock time” runs our lives. From the moment our alarms go off in the morning, the clock reigns supreme: our meetings, our appointments, even our social plans are often timed down ...
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Newyork
Two Fashion Designers on Staying Inspired and Independent
For the Taking the Lead series, we asked leaders in various fields to share insights on what they’ve learned and what lies ahead. When Christopher John Rogers was an aspiring designer in middle school in Louisiana, he came across the work of the ...
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Newyork
What Twitter Can Learn From Quakers
For what feels like ages, we’ve been told that Twitter is, or needs to be, the world’s town square. That was Dick Costolo’s line in 2013, when he was Twitter’s chief executive (“We think of it as the global town square”), and Jack Dorsey, one of ...
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Books
Review: The Rising Star of Conducting Arrives in New York
Klaus Mäkelä, a young yet already accomplished maestro, made his New York Philharmonic debut with a performance that prioritized clarity.
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Newyork
True ‘Holiday Magic’ Can’t Be Manufactured
As part of The Times’s 31 Days of Holiday Treasures, a digital advent calendar of delight, my colleague Susan Shain talks to moms who are ditching the pressure to make “holiday magic.” The term is everywhere these days — Spotify has a Holiday Magic ...
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World
A Chatty Putin’s Underlying Message: I’m Still in Charge
In a string of appearances, it wasn’t so much what the Russian leader said, much of it false, as it was his apparent need to demonstrate that he is healthy, alert and in control.
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Newyork
Hootie and the Blowfish and the End of History
On Twitter this week, it seemed everyone was sharing communiqués from GPT-3, the A.I. chatbot that can answer just about any question with extraordinary facility, as long as you don’t mind answers whose political assumptions are safely conditioned by ...
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News
Can News Be Made Into a Sustainable Business?
For a DealBook task force, a lack of trust, political polarization and a troubled business model are among the news industry’s challenges.
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Newyork
Chinese Abroad: Worried, Wary and Protesting
Chinese expatriates in the United States are elated but nervous as they watch the protests at home.
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Sports
Twists and Turns: A World Cup Fitness Coach Explains Pregame Warm-Ups
In the final hour before a game, teams’ activities can look as random as recess at the local elementary school. But there is order in the chaos.