Hope
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World
Matt Damon, Fran Drescher and an Indian Soybean Farmer on 2024
What are your hopes for 2024? See how they compare with those of 11 people I put that question to. (Most of them replied by email. The people from Afghanistan and India spoke by phone.) Fran Drescher, an actress and the president of SAG-AFTRA, which ...
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World
Can Hope Ever Be a Form of Medicine?
Of all the ways the body can go wrong, A.L.S. is one of the most frightening. It begins subtly — a twitching muscle, a cough when you swallow or a clumsy hand. But then it progresses. Motor neurons degenerate and die. You lose the ability to talk, to ...
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Chris Snow, Hockey Executive Who Publicly Faced A.L.S., Dies at 42
The assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames, he was given a year to live in 2019. He and his wife used the time to document life with the disease.
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Magazine
Will Children Save Us at the End of the World?
A wave of recent and forthcoming TV series, books and movies meditate on how young people might fare during an apocalyptic event — with varying degrees of optimism.
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World
Your Thursday Briefing
A helicopter crash in Ukraine and the resignation of Jacinda Ardern.
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World
A Chorus of Hopes for 2023
I outsourced my first newsletter of 2023. I asked a variety of people, from many walks of life, both from the United States and abroad, to share their hopes for the new year. The results were so fascinating that I’m thinking of making this into an ...