World
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John C. Koss, Stereo Headphone Innovator, Is Dead at 91
John C. Koss, a trumpet player and onetime teenage bandleader who with a friend invented stereo headphones and provided people with a new high ...
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The Lessons of Brooklyn Tech
For many years I lived across the street from Stuyvesant High School, Manhattan’s elite public school, and I would sometimes get a ride from a ...
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Neil Young and Liz Cheney, Thanks for Sticking Your Necks Out
In an era when so many leaders in American public life are behaving badly, I never want to miss a chance to give a shout-out to those daring to ...
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Can the Fed Let Us Down Easy?
American workers are quitting at record rates, suggesting that they’re confident they can easily find new jobs. Wages are rising rapidly ...
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What the Joe Rogan Backlash Reveals About How We Handle Misinformation
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The fields of the national ...
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What an All-Women News Network in India Shows Us About Democracy
It started out as a literacy project. Dalit women, formerly known as untouchables, hand-wrote a newsletter about issues that mattered to them ...
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U.S. Sends Top Security Official to Help NATO Brace for Russian Cyberattacks
WASHINGTON — The White House dispatched its top cybersecurity official to NATO on Tuesday in what it described as a mission to prepare allies to ...
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Mel Mermelstein, Holocaust Survivor Who Sued Deniers, Dies at 95
Mel Mermelstein, an Auschwitz survivor who, by calling the bluff of self-proclaimed World War II historical revisionists, won a formal apology ...
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Report on London Police Highlights Culture of Misogyny and Racism
LONDON — London police officers routinely made jokes about rape and exchanged racist messages, according to a report from England’s official ...
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Alan A. Stone, 92, Dies; Challenged Psychiatry’s Use in Public Policy
Alan A. Stone, an iconoclastic scholar who used his dual tenured appointments at Harvard’s law and medical schools to exert a powerful influence ...