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What Joe Biden Could Learn From Betty White About Aging in Public
In American politics, there is a difference between being old and seeming old — especially when appearing on TV. In…
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How Can Biden Win the Debate? Trump? Five Tips for Each Candidate.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face off Thursday night for the first general-election debate of the 2024 presidential election…
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The Ground Is Shifting Under Biden and Trump
Have Democrats and Republicans traded places? How has the ascendance of well-educated, relatively affluent liberals among Democrats, alongside the dominance…
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The Supreme Court Steps Back From the Edge
The nine members of the Supreme Court peered over a precipice. A disagreeable choice loomed before them. They could apply…
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I Study Homelessness. I Wish More Places Looked Like This Shelter.
In this audio essay, the sociologist Matthew Desmond interviews a resident of the Water Street Mission shelter in Lancaster, Pa.,…
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Netanyahu Does Not Speak for Us. Congress Should Disinvite Him.
The leaders of the U.S. Congress have invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to address a joint meeting of…
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Should American Jews Abandon Elite Universities?
The notable fact about the anti-Israel campus demonstrations is that they are predominantly an elite phenomenon. Yes, there have been…
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Patients Stunned by Their Medical Bills
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Eric Hazan, Publisher and Historian on France’s Left, Dies at 87
He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark…
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Seth Binzer, Crazy Town’s Lead Singer, ‘Shifty Shellshock,’ Dies at 49
He was the frontman for the rap-rock band Crazy Town, which was most known for the hit song “Butterfly.”