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Magazine
At the Japan State Dinner, Jill Biden Makes an Entrance
The first lady was glittering in crystals — four days after Melania Trump stepped out in pink at a Palm Beach fund-raiser. Together, the pictures offer a harbinger of what is to come.
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World
Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.
There are no end of theories for why the internet feels so crummy these days. The New Yorker blames the shift to algorithmic feeds. Wired blames a cycle in which companies cease serving their users and begin monetizing them. The M.I.T. Technology ...
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World
There Is No Easy Way to Go Public About Cancer
There is a moment for patients after we deliver the news of a frightening diagnosis, after they have taken in the realities we have laid before them, when they realize that there is one more tremendous hurdle ahead: to share that news with others ...
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World
Katie Porter, a Rising Star in Congress, Finds Herself Without Another Seat
The California representative harnessed social media and her committee perch to build a following. But it wasn’t enough to survive a brutal Senate contest, and she has nowhere to go this election season.
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Real Estate
How Do I Make My Building Turn on the Heat (or Turn It Up)?
New York City requires building owners to provide heat between Oct. 1 and May 31.
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Arts
‘Fallen Leaves’ Review: Love (and Laughs) Among the Ruins
In the latest from the Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki, two lonely people find each other with tenderness, karaoke and deadpan comedy.
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Real Estate
City Island: A ‘Little Magical Wonderland’ in the Bronx
This 1.5-mile-long island, with “a beach on almost every block,” may feel like small-town New England, but it’s part of the city.
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World
What I Told My Daughter About War
There comes a point in every child’s life when he or she asks about war. My 7-year-old daughter reached that milestone this week. “Are there wars happening right now?” she asked as we used a glue gun to build the Egyptian pyramids out of sugar cubes ...
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Business
What Should You Do if Hotels Don’t Warn You About Strikes?
There is recourse for customers who arrive at a hotel and are surprised to find a boisterous picket line waiting to greet them.
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World
Samuel Alito Has a Favorite Branch of Government
In theory, there is no branch in the American constitutional system that exists above or beyond the reach of the others. “The great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who ...