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World
Yacouba Sawadogo, African Farmer Who Held Back the Desert, Dies at 77
Against the odds, facing the encroaching Sahara, he built a forest in Burkina Faso, becoming “a national hero” and winning…
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Finance
No Oversight: Inside a Boom-Time Start-Up Fraud and Its Unraveling
False claims and risky trades at the Silicon Valley start-up HeadSpin were part of a pattern of trouble emerging at…
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Arts
The World Has Finally Caught Up to Colman Domingo
Colman Domingo was at the Equinox on 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue when his agent called. A rush of hope…
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News
A Forgotten Chapter of Abortion History Repeats Itself
Much of the country no doubt watched in amazement last week as a woman with a doomed pregnancy was forced…
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World
Debate Over Plagiarism Allegations Against Claudine Gay Adds to Pressures at Harvard
Additional examples of insufficient citation in the work of the university’s president has strengthened critics and strained some supporters.
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News
Gaza, Ukraine and the Lingering Scars From the War on Terror
It will be a long time before any of us understand what happened after Oct. 7, but it seems important…
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News
Raymond Dirks, Whose Tipster Case Redefined Insider Trading, Dies at 89
In a far-reaching decision, the Supreme Court restored him from censured analyst to whistle-blower in a major corporate fraud.
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World
Pope’s Shift on Gay Couples Followed Quiet Talks and Loud Resistance
Pope Francis spoke with L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics and their supporters for years before letting priests bless same-sex couples. But the move’s…
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World
Kendra’s Law Was Meant to Prevent Violence. It Failed Hundreds of Times.
After John Skeene served prison time for beating his mother to death with a chair leg, after he attacked a…
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News
Income Inequality Has Been Transformed Globally
In 1974, the libertarian political philosopher Robert Nozick famously defended inequality by offering a thought experiment involving Wilt Chamberlain. Imagine…