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Opinion
Angela Merkel Was Underestimated, and It Became Her Superpower
Almost every article written about Angela Merkel’s tenure as Germany’s chancellor notes that one of her greatest political strengths has…
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Opinion
My Mission to Ferret Out a Lost Broadway Score
It’s not hard to know that Fats Waller was a jazz pianist and entertainer who wrote great songs like “Ain’t…
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Europe
U.K.’s Migrant Boat Dispute Has Eyes Fixed on the Channel
FOLKESTONE, England — Using high-powered binoculars and a telescope, three volunteers from a humanitarian monitoring group stood on the Kent…
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Opinion
This Is No Way to End a Pandemic
A year ago, before any Covid vaccine had been authorized for use, former President Donald Trump all but promised that…
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Opinion
Robert E. Lee’s Statues Are Gone. That’s Not the End of His Story.
This month in Virginia, the most famous statue of Robert E. Lee — a 21-foot-tall bronze equestrian sculpture — was…
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Opinion
Education Doesn’t Inoculate Us from Vaccine Hesitancy
I got in a bit of a dust-up online recently for concluding that vaccine hesitance and resistance to masking were…
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Opinion
7 Gadgets to Make You Less Weird When You Go Back to the Office
After 18 months of isolation, it’s time to dust off your favorite Dockers. We put in 130 hours of research…
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Real Estate
Can You Break the Lease if Your Apartment Might Flood?
Q: I live in a Park Slope garden apartment with ongoing drainage issues. During hurricanes Henri and Ida, I was…
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Books
Anita Hill Has Some Perspective to Offer
Anita Hill still speaks in the measured tones she did while being questioned before an all-white, all-male panel before the…
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America
Whales So Close You Can Touch Them: A Family Adventure in Canada
The trail to our yurt was narrow, muddy and peppered with tiny ceramic and plasticgnomes, fairies and bears. My 8-year-old…