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A history of forced population transfers sheds light on present conflicts.
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Arts
She Broke Barriers in Music. But She’s Uneasy About the Attention.
A new documentary tells the story of Orin O’Brien, a double bassist who became the only woman in the New York Philharmonic when she joined in 1966 and helped open doors for others.
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Arts
‘How to Dance in Ohio’: A Story About Autism and Connection
In a first for Broadway, openly autistic actors are playing the autistic characters in this new musical about a doctor helping neurodiverse clients.
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World
Farewell to the U.S.-China Golden Age
A lunch meeting about China this summer at the Upper East Side headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations felt more like an Irish wake. A crowd that included gray-haired China hands and not-so-gray-haired tech executives shared memories of ...
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World
Johnson Said in 2015 Trump Was Unfit and Could Be ‘Dangerous’ as President
Speaker Mike Johnson, then a Republican state lawmaker, posted on social media that Donald J. Trump lacked the character and morality to be president and could be vindictive.
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Arts
A Father Stages the Unthinkable: Losing a Son in a School Shooting
Manuel Oliver has a one-man show about the life and death of his son, Joaquin, who was killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
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World
In Arizona, Bad Feelings About the Economy Sour Some Voters on Biden
The White House has hailed new investments and new jobs, yet many voters in a battleground state are chafing at inflation and housing costs.
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World
The Squandered Potential of Tim Scott
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination this week having failed to make good on his early promise as a candidate who could broaden the party coalition in a general election. And while he could ...
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World
With the Death Toll in Gaza Rising, Palestinians Are Not Just Numbers
After the Israeli military killed his older brother in an airstrike in Gaza in 2014, Ahmed Alnaouq says, he almost lost his will to live. “I sank into a deep depression,” he told me in a recent phone call. But an American friend convinced him to ...
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Magazine
Sigrid Nunez’s Art of Noticing
We began outside on Adirondack chairs still heavy with dew, the 72-year-old American novelist Sigrid Nunez preferring the shade. It was a cloudless morning in mid-August in Middlebury, Vt., and I had gone to meet Nunez, a petite woman of almost ...