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In Ovid’s “Pygmalion” an artist creates an ivory sculpture of a woman so beautiful that he falls in love with it. He kisses his statue, adorns it with jewels and finery, and prays to…
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One candidate for governor of New Jersey was arrested. Another won a coveted endorsement from President Trump. And the rules that for decades governed primaries in the state were deemed…
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Ronald Reagan and his fellow Republicans once invoked what they referred to as “welfare queens” as they made the case for reining in social spending in the 1970s and 1980s, painting a…
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Mayor Eric Adams may be running an unusually low-key race for re-election in New York City, opting out of the Democratic primary and mounting an independent general election run without…
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Barbara Holdridge, who co-founded the first commercially successful spoken-word record label, one that began with the poet Dylan Thomas reciting his story “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”…
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This is not the image Army officials had wanted.While tanks, armored troop carriers and artillery systems pour into Washington for the Army’s 250th birthday celebration, National Guard…
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Yale University’s famed endowment has been trying to offload one of the largest portfolios of private equity investments ever in a single sale, a move that reflects the pressures on…
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WorldPride was held this year in Washington, D.C., under the shadow of the Trump administration’s moves that affect L.G.B.T.Q. Americans.
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The New York City mayoral primary is just under three weeks away. Our City Hall bureau chief, Emma Fitzsimmons, highlights the two front-runners and their plans for the three main…
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new video loaded: Why the U.S. Brought Back Kilmar Abrego GarciaKilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, was flown back to the United States on Friday to face…
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