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Sports
So Much Talent, So Little Charm
The Nets are again one of the Eastern Conference’s best teams, with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant leading All-Star voting. So why is there so little joy in watching them?
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World
Will the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem Be Built on Confiscated Palestinian Land?
The Biden administration is doubling down on its predecessor’s reckless decision to recognize Israel’s claims to Jerusalem as its capital, a break with nearly 70 years of policy. The State Department is advancing plans to erect an embassy building in ...
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World
Will There Be a Biden Comeback?
Something unusual happened to Joe Biden this week. A reputable poll, from The Economist and YouGov, showed him with a positive job approval rating — even hitting 50 percent approval among registered voters, against 47 percent disapproving. Maybe the ...
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World
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Other Dreams
But King, of course, is a more complicated figure than his sanctified image would suggest, and his body of work — his writings, speeches and interviews — is deeper and more wide-ranging than most Americans might appreciate. With our annual ...
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Arts
‘House Party’ Review: A Rager Gone South
Directed by Calmatic, “House Party” reboots the 1990 Kid ’n Play cult comedy with the help of LeBron James.
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World
How to Help Girls Enduring the Unendurable
NAIROBI, Kenya — She is impossibly young to have endured what she did, and what still haunts her is the job of the man responsible: a police officer. “He said that if I tell, he will kill me,” whispered the 11-year-old girl, whom I’ll call Nancy (the ...
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World
Why Do Documents Marked Secret Keep Showing Up in Strange Places?
There is much we still do not know about President Biden’s stash of secret documents, but one thing is painfully obvious: The system for protecting secrets vital to national security has spun out of control. The question is why. No one should be ...
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Arts
At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.
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Business
‘We Just Couldn’t Keep Up With the Volume’
In the days leading up to Christmas, the chief executive of Southwest Airlines, Bob Jordan, thought the company would quickly recover from the frigid weather that forced thousands of flight cancellations nationwide. But that changed by Dec. 25 when ...
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Business
27 People on the Streets of New York Talk About How Much Money They Make
SCRATCH 27 People on the Streets of New York Talk About How Much Money They Make We asked nearly 400 people to tell us how much they earn. Here are two dozen who actually spoke to us. By Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg Julia is an illustrator ...