Health
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Let’s Have Fewer Cancellations. Let People Take Their Lumps, Then Move On.
Paul Laurence Dunbar was perhaps the pre-eminent Black poet of the era after Reconstruction. In a new biography, the Princeton…
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Biden Says Inflation in July Was Zero. He’s Right. And He’s Wrong.
President Biden is catching flak from Republicans for proclaiming on Wednesday that inflation in July was zero, not 8.5 percent.…
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What the New C.D.C. Guidelines Mean for You
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxed many of its Covid-19 guidelines this week, shifting sharply away from several…
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Greening Your Home Will Be Cheaper, but Expect Growing Pains
Though the average price of gasoline in the United States has dropped to about $4 per gallon, down from a…
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The Best Summer Dinner Is Assembled, Not Cooked
Much of the so-called cooking I do in summer is just assembling. Slice up whatever produce is on hand, add…
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Bill Pitman, Revered Studio Guitarist, Is Dead at 102
Bill Pitman, a guitarist who accompanied Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and others from the late 1950s to the…
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What the U.S. Gets Wrong About Iran
Ibn Khaldun, the 14th-century North African scholar, wrote that empires tended not to last beyond three generations. The founders of…
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When Will the Pandemic End? And Other Pressing Questions, Answered
While the risks of deaths and hospitalizations from Covid-19 are substantially lower now, navigating this phase of the pandemic can…
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A Nourishing Conversation With Mohsin Hamid on Social Fictions — and Real Losses
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ In his latest work, “The Last White Man,” the award-winning writer Mohsin Hamid imagines…