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Why Children Are Missing More School Now
The raw data looks inarguably bad: The share of American children missing at least 10 percent of school days nearly…
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Chet Walker, N.B.A. Champion and Movie Producer, Dies at 84
A vital member of the 1966-67 champion Philadelphia 76ers, he later produced a TV series based on the life on…
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The Day My Old Church Canceled Me Was a Very Sad Day
This week, the leaders of the Presbyterian Church in America will gather in Richmond, Va., for their annual General Assembly.…
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A Promise to Grads With ‘No Promise’
It’s high school graduation season. Time to cheer the teenage achievers (especially the overachievers) and send them off to campus…
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The Unabomber, Me and the Poisoned Myth of the American West
On June 10 of last year, Ted Kaczynski, the homegrown terrorist known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his…
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Sigmund Rolat, Who Used His Wealth to Memorialize Polish Jews, Dies at 93
A Holocaust survivor and a shipping financier, he returned to his home country, where his parents and brother perished, to…
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I’m Choking on My Neighbor’s Smoke. But She’s Rent-Stabilized. What Can I Do?
When it comes to rent-stabilized tenants, legal claims against co-ops are tricky. Ultimately, it’s the apartment’s owner who must take…
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No, Byron Donalds, Jim Crow Didn’t Create Stronger Black Families
At an event in Philadelphia promoting Donald Trump and the Republican Party on Tuesday, Representative Byron Donalds of Florida made…
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An Object Lesson From Covid on How to Destroy Public Trust
Big chunks of the history of the Covid pandemic were rewritten over the last month or so in a way…
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This Glorious Celebration Shows What Border Communities Can Be
The sky was muddy gray when I arrived at the Sams Memorial Stadium parking lot on a cool February afternoon.…