Opinion
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The Truth About Your Bacon
We used to raise hogs on our family farm here, and to be honest I didn’t much like them. Defenders…
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New York City Needs Big Ideas and Leaders Willing to Try Them
People like to write off New York City, and time and again, this city proves them wrong. It’s never been…
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This Is the Music America Needs
In an Era of Extreme Polarization, Can Music Bring Us Together? Listen to the music that inspired this piece and…
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I Have a Choice to Make About My Blindness
I recently visited a local Mexican restaurant with my family. It was the first time we’d gone out together for…
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Julia Scully, Influential Photography Editor and Memoirist, Dies at 94
She oversaw Modern Photography for 20 years and wrote an acclaimed book about her rough-and-tumble childhood, some of it spent…
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The Unsettled Debate at the Heart of the Henrietta Lacks Case
Do we own our bodies? To an ordinary person, the answer is obviously yes. To a lawyer, it’s not at…
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Roger Sprung, Banjo Virtuoso of N.Y.C. Folk Scene, Dies at 92
The so-called godfather of progressive bluegrass, he honed his skills in the mountains of the South, fusing the music with…
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‘Huberman Husbands,’ ‘Bro Diets’ and the ‘Masculine’ Branding of Fitness Culture
It started with a suspicious green sludge at the bottom of our drinking glasses. I kept finding evidence of this…
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The Hard-Drug Decriminalization Disaster
How soon is too soon to call a progressive and libertarian policy obsession a public policy fiasco? In the case…
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Angus Cloud, Actor on ‘Euphoria,’ Dies at 25
The cause of death was not released, but his family said that he had “intensely struggled” after the recent death…