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What Makes a Coincidence Meaningful?
There are two kinds of people in the world: People who say, “What a coincidence,” and people who say, “Just a coincidence.” Same facts, different reactions. Are you the “what a” kind or the “just a” kind? I want your emails. I’m a “just a coincidence ...
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Missing the Gay Best Friend
In film and on TV, he was a sign of cultural progress. Then he was a tired stereotype. Then he disappeared. So why do we want him back?
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A Fresh Look at a Sensational 1843 Murder Case and Its Fallout
In “The Witch of New York,” Alex Hortis revisits a Staten Island case that helped usher in a lurid new era of journalism.
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How Hurray for the Riff Raff Learned the Power of the Present
Almost a year after the sudden death of Alynda Segarra’s father, the sight of a Bronx-bound subway entrance made the musician cry. “I walked by the 1 train yesterday, and the color of the red and the ‘1’ and the ‘Van Cortlandt Park’ and the ‘Uptown ...
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India’s Top Court Reverses Early Release of 11 Men Convicted of Gang Rape
The case of Bilkis Bano, who was three months pregnant when she was attacked, became a powerful symbol of communal bloodshed and of the widespread violence against women in the country.
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Jelly Roll, an Unlikely New Star, on the Grammys and His Rap Past
An interview with one of the year’s surprise success stories in the music industry, who’s become known as much for emotional openness as for hit songs.
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Unfurling the Unusual Costumes of ‘Poor Things’
The designer Holly Waddington breaks down how Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter evolves onscreen, from her childish knickers to her cage-like wedding dress.
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Governor Defiance Tries to Usurp Washington’s Role
In mid-December, just one day after Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed into law a radical new immigration bill, immigrant rights groups challenged it in court as ridiculously unconstitutional. The groups felt they had no choice, but they did exactly ...
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The Year in Opinion Video
Men serving life sentences in American prisons argued why, decades later, they pose no threat to society. Children whose fathers were killed in the war in Ukraine showed us the surprising costs of war. Bank robbers in Beirut flipped our understanding ...
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The Best Sentences of 2023
Over recent days, I took on a daunting task — but a delightful one. I reviewed all the passages of prose featured in the For the Love of Sentences section of my Times Opinion newsletter in 2023 and tried to determine the best of the best. And there’s ...
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