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News
Notes From a Formerly Unpromising Young Person
In 2007 my email inbox dinged with a name I recognized but hadn’t seen in more than 20 years. I…
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News
Don’t Doubt NATO. It Saved My People.
Some in the United States have downplayed the importance of NATO. Many European partners worry that after the U.S. presidential…
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World
Jeremy Corbyn Wins Election Against Labour, Party He Once Led
Jeremy Corbyn, an independent candidate running for Parliament, won his seat against a candidate from the Labour party, which he…
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World
8-Year-Old Is Killed and Two Adults Wounded in Queens Stabbing
Police officers arrived at an apartment in Jamaica to find a man holding his father at knife point and an…
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World
Keir Starmer Is Poised to Be Next U.K. Prime Minister
Keir Starmer is all but certain to become the next prime minister of Britain, after an exit poll projected that…
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Arts
The Dazzling Artistry of Hiroshige’s ‘100 Famous Views of Edo’
It’s actually 118 at the Brooklyn Museum, and the more the better. These vivid color woodblocks have much to teach…
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News
Loving America Means Expecting More From It
Patriotism did not bring my grandfather to the Army recruiter’s office in 1956. Poverty did. A youth spent picking cotton…
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World
Hurricane Beryl Batters Jamaica as 2 Other Islands Lie in Ruin
The island confirmed its first death as a surge of water, damaging winds and flooding pummeled the southern coast on…
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Finance
Rob Stone, Master Marketer of Hip-Hop, Is Dead at 55
A founder of the influential music magazine The Fader, he also bridged the worlds of hip-hop and the Fortune 500…
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News
Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76
A favorite of early personal computer users, his company was eventually overtaken by Microsoft Word. He later came out as…