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Dancing Past the Venus de Milo
I fell in love with the Louvre one morning while doing disco moves to Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough” in the Salle des Cariatides. The museum, a former medieval fortress and then royal palace, had not yet opened, and I was ...
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A Closer Look at a Slight Shift in the Polls
An average of recent surveys, including the Times/Siena poll, finds President Biden inching closer to Donald Trump.
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A Young Basketball Player and a Coach Found Each Other Just in Time
Arthur Dukes Jr. played in pickup basketball games whenever he could, which is why he showed up for an open-gym session at Public School 92 in Harlem one evening last year. At 21, he was living at home in a two-bedroom apartment with his parents and ...
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How Much Is Biden’s Support of Israel Hurting Him With Young Voters?
Donald Trump leads him among those 18 to 29, a new poll shows.
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American Students Outperformed the Rest of the World During the Pandemic
By now, you’ve probably registered the alarm that pandemic learning loss has produced a “lost generation” of American students. This self-lacerating story has formed the heart of an indictment of American school policies during the pandemic ...
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Sports
Once Underdogs, They’re Still Playing With Chips on Their Shoulders
No. 2-seed Marquette was picked ninth of 11 teams in the Big East preseason poll. The Golden Eagles’ point guard, Tyler Kolek, hasn’t forgotten.
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There’s No Real Ceiling for Federal Debt? I’m Not So Sure.
I’ve written and spoken respectfully about believers in modern monetary theory over the years, so some M.M.T.-ers were taken aback when I seemed to dismiss their ideas in my newsletter last week. I wrote, “Unless you subscribe to modern monetary ...
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The Super Bowl Betting Line Flipped Overnight. What Happened?
After Kansas City and its injured stars were installed as a slim favorite, the early money poured in on Philadelphia.
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Republicans Are Riding High on ‘Place-Based Resentment’
Rural America has become the Republican Party’s life preserver. Less densely settled regions of the country, crucial to the creation of congressional and legislative districts favorable to conservatives, are a pillar of the party’s strength in the ...
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Business
Fed President Backs Slowdown as Support Mounts for Smaller Rate Move
Susan M. Collins, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said she was leaning toward a quarter-point move at the central bank’s Feb. 1 meeting.
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