Opinion
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Chris Snow, Hockey Executive Who Publicly Faced A.L.S., Dies at 42
The assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames, he was given a year to live in 2019. He and his…
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Christian Nationalism May Not Be Serious, but It’s Dangerous
The more I consider the challenge posed by Christian nationalism, the more I think most observers and critics are paying…
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This Is Why I Hate Banned Books Week
Walk past any bookstore or library in America this week, and you are likely to find a sign exhorting you…
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Have Gear, Will Deliver: Why I Carry Supplies to Ukrainian Troops
This past summer, Britain’s defense minister at the time, Ben Wallace, chided Ukraine for not showing enough gratitude for the…
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‘Dumb Money’ Exposes the Baffling Allure of Bad Investment Advice
The new movie “Dumb Money” dramatizes the true story of an unlikely messiah named Roaring Kitty who decides to sink…
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Will Biden’s Climate Law Change Your Life Before November 2024?
More than a year after its passage, much about President Biden’s climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, is working. America…
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Chris Snow, Hockey Executive Who Publicly Faced A.L.S., Dies at 42
The assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames of the N.H.L. was given a year to live when he received…
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Running San Francisco Made Dianne Feinstein
When I was interviewing Senator Dianne Feinstein in 2011 for a book about San Francisco’s tumultuous history from the 1960s…
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Evelyn Fox Keller, Who Turned a Feminist Lens on Science, Dies at 87
Trained as a physicist and biologist, she argued that science had become gendered, with a narrow masculine framework that distorted…
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Nancy Van de Vate, Composer and Advocate for Women in Music, Dies at 92
An American who settled in Vienna, she had a prolific career in contemporary classical music and broke gender barriers in…