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How Citizen Spies Foiled Putin’s Grand Plan for One Ukrainian City
On a foggy morning a few months ago, Valentyn Dmytrovych Yermolenko, an aging Ukrainian fisherman with a bad back and…
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In Ukraine, Christmas Lights Defy Darkness of War, and Children Ask for Peace
One town is protecting a statue of St. Nick with sandbags, another is putting its Christmas tree underground and others…
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Day 25: That Time an Orthodox Jew Celebrated Christmas
The first and only time that Alex Edelman’s family celebrated Christmas, their tree was topped not by a star, but…
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Making Skate Films Into Art
William Strobeck brings rare intimacy to his skateboarding films. His latest, “Play Dead,” with Supreme, chronicles some of the sport’s…
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What’s the Big Deal About Handbags?
MZ Wallace built a successful brand with its utilitarian, untrendy, unfussy approach to accessories.
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Don Christopher, Who Turned Lowly Garlic Into a Staple, Dies at 88
Known as the Garlic King, he used his enthusiasm and a business acumen to build an empire around the once-lowly…
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The Jan. 6 Report Is Out. Now the Real Work Begins.
Much attention this week has focused on the Jan. 6 committee’s criminal referrals. But in its report, released on Thursday,…
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Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man?
Louisa May Alcott balked when her editor asked her to write a book for girls. “Never liked girls or knew…
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This Was the Year Everything Changed in Germany
BERLIN — Winter is here, and Germany is ready. After worries that the country would have to resort to energy…
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Why Dickens Haunts Us
WASHINGTON — I had always been a bah humbug sort of person about Christmas. It seemed like a season of…