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The recent meltdown was avoidable, but it would have cost them.
David Brooks
What lies within someone so eager to invent a new self?
Paul Krugman
"Cool" doesn't necessarily deliver sustained advantage.
Michelle Cottle
Most egregious nepo couple, most stylish exit, top con man and more.
Does Elon know who buys his stuff?
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A couple found a rental apartment in Manhattan on the first day they searched. But there were weeks of snags and delays before they actually moved in.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s genealogy series returns on PBS. And a TV adaptation of an Anne Rice trilogy debuts on AMC.
Rio Dell was still recovering from a 6.4-magnitude quake that hit on Dec. 20, when it was jolted again on New Year's Day.
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Years of addiction and struggle followed his breakout role in "American Beauty." He lived to tell the tale, and get a major role on TV's biggest show.
Trevor Bickford, a 19-year-old from Maine, had recently become radicalized and traveled to New York to attack the police, according to a law enforcement official.
The average U.S. household wastes nearly a third of the food it buys. This community is nudging its residents to change their habits.
She plays a ferocious warrior in "The Woman King," but in her performance, vulnerability and humanity were what she sought to convey.
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The magazine's Ethicist columnist on finding compromises when sharing a home.
At the E.R., the patient learned his blood wasn't clotting. His mother had the same condition — but the trigger turned out to be a surprise.
"Some people naïvely think if we teach A.I. 'Don't kill people while maximizing paper-clip production,' that will take care of it," says Yejin Choi.
For Jason Lentz, being a world-class competitive lumberjack was fated in his family tree.
They afford us the privileges of escape and reinvention — a place where life is more than what it seemed on the surface.
The college town of Moscow, Idaho, has been reeling since the attack last month, but the police gave no motive for the murders.
Founded in 1894 and run by members of the same family ever since, Veniero's is an icon of Italian American New York.
Operating in shadows, he was a hero; in the light, he quickly became a villain.
To rise through the Trump-era G.O.P., a young congresswoman gave up her friends, her mentors and her ideals. Will it be enough?
Georgia scored in the final minute of the game, and Ohio State missed a field goal in the first minute of 2023.
After a restoration darkened the hue of a statue at the birthplace of the French writer, complaints ensued — then vandalism.
Small talk on the M15, an autograph at Yankee Stadium and more reader tales of New York City in this week's Metropolitan Diary.
Interviews revealed that people in President Donald J. Trump's orbit had very different views on seizing voting machines, the Proud Boys and each other's roles.
