Opinion
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Audra McDonald Is Returning to Broadway! There’s Just One Catch.
The recent announcement that Audra McDonald will be starring as Mama Rose in “Gypsy” has thrilled Broadway fans. I’m as…
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J.D. Vance’s Strange Turn to 1876
The most favorable gloss you could give to Donald Trump’s effort to “Stop the Steal” is that it was an…
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Jan. 6, America’s Rupture and the Strange, Forgotten Power of Oblivion
On March 4, Judge Tanya Chutkan presided over jury selection for a criminal trial in a Jan. 6, 2021, case.…
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‘My Soul Is in Ukraine’: Safe, but Lost, in Rural England
For almost two years Tania Drobot, a 53-year-old math teacher from Kyiv, Ukraine, has lived in the home of Fiona…
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What Have We Liberals Done to the West Coast?
As Democrats make their case to voters around the country this fall, one challenge is that some of the bluest…
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Learning to Love My Father as His Mind Unraveled
When I was around 10 years old, my father started hiding bananas in our house. We found them in the…
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Birding My Way Through Chemo
Andy Rementer is an artist and illustrator. George Rementer is a retired wallpaper hanger and a great dad.
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My Father’s Day Gift From the F.B.I.
On an otherwise pleasant day in May 1957, my father received two unwelcome visitors at his tool-and-die factory. They were…
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Growing Old, With Grace and Aches
Older readers offer a range of perspectives in response to a column by Charles M. Blow.
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Larry Summers Isn’t Second-Guessing the Government on Inflation
Interest payments aren’t counted in the inflation rate. This is a fact that a lot of readers find confusing, if…