World
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The G.O.P. War on Civil Virtue
It’s hard to say which of the Republican responses to the latest mass shooting was most reprehensible. The reliably awful Senator Ted Cruz ...
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In the Texas Rampage’s Wake, Social Media Can Reform Itself
It’s almost impossible to comprehend what to do in the wake of mass shootings like the one that killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in ...
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The Southern Baptist Moral Meltdown
They dedicated their lives to a gospel that says that every human being is made in the image of God. They dedicated their lives to a creed that ...
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It’s Still Covid’s World. We’re Just Living In It.
There are days, now, when you can almost forget about the virus. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are still being infected with ...
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Caring Is All We Seem Able to Do
Bags packed for a long overdue vacation, I saw the first reports: “Latest mass shooting” does not narrow it down as much as one would like, and ...
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Shoplifting Ring Swept Stores for Luxury Goods, Prosecutors Say
For years, the leader of a New York City theft ring would draw up wish lists for dozens of underlings whom he sent out to shoplift millions of ...
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Why a Lucrative Tax Break for Developers Is Likely to Die in Albany
New York State legislators are unlikely to renew a tax-incentive program that has been used in nearly every big residential project in New York ...
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As Russia Diverges From the Global Economy, Soviet-Style Scarcity Looms
Gripped by heavy economic sanctions and increasingly isolated from Western suppliers, Russia worked on Thursday to keep its factories and ...
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‘Something Terrible Happened Today’: Parents on Telling Their Kids About Uvalde
Like many parents, I was fighting back tears when I picked up my children from school on Tuesday after the news broke about the horrors in Uvalde ...
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Your Friday Briefing: Where Were the Police?
Good morning. We’re covering growing frustrations about the police response to the Texas school shooting, questions about the end of Russia’s war ...