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As Wimbledon Begins, an Era of Sports Free of Bans and Boycotts Ends
LONDON — For roughly three decades, making sure athletes participated in the biggest events regardless of the world’s never-ending military and ...
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Dorothy E. Smith, Groundbreaker in Feminist Sociology, Dies at 95
Dorothy E. Smith, a feminist scholar and sociologist whose extensive criticism of her own field led her to establish groundbreaking theories and ...
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He’s a Star for the Digital Age. Some Think His Belt Is Paper.
LAS VEGAS — In early May, a month before a scheduled fight for the undisputed lightweight championship in Melbourne, Australia, Devin Haney stood ...
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What Vaccine Apartheid Portends for the Climate Future
The pandemic has been furnishing new and distressing episodes almost weekly for more than two years now. But what is in retrospect perhaps the ...
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We, the Writers? A Global Literary Congress Meets in New York
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has evoked a back-to-the-future Cold War frisson, in culture as much as politics. So, as 80 writers from around ...
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We’re in a Loneliness Crisis: Another Reason to Get Off Our Phones
It rained one morning this week. I moved back to Texas last year, in part for the rainstorms. Here, it rains decisively, gloriously, like it ...
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Is Australian Democracy in Decline?
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. How healthy is democracy today? I’ve been ...
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Food, Fertilizer and the Future
As anyone who drives is aware, gasoline prices are up a lot from their 2020 low. First, global economic recovery drove up oil demand, then ...
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Your Tuesday Briefing: Russia Launches Assault in Eastern Ukraine
We’re covering Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine and the economic toll of China’s Covid lockdowns. Residents cleaning up a destroyed compound ...
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The World’s Broken Promise of Asylum
For more than 70 years, the world has enshrined, in national laws and global agreements, a promise that was presented as vitally important ...
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