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Is It OK to Let My Relatives Think Their Dead Sister Is Still Alive?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to come clean about a well-intended lie.
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Science
Let’s Hack the Universe
A popular cosmological theory holds that we live in a vast computer simulation. So how hard could it be to…
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Health
Sickle Cell Cure Brings Mix of Anxiety and Hope
Some people who have long lived with the disease say they worry about living as a healthy person, while others…
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China’s Economy Stumbled Last Year With Covid Lockdowns Hobbling Growth
New government data shows that growth for the year fell far short of Beijing’s goal. With Covid curbs lifted but…
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In Montecito, the Million-Dollar Views Still Come With Mudslide Risks
MONTECITO, Calif. — Roads flooded, trees toppled, creeks raged and residents braced for the deadly catastrophe they knew could come.…
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Opinion
Diversity Trainings Try to Change Hearts and Minds. That’s a Mistake.
Diversity trainings have been around for decades, long before the country’s latest round of racial reckoning. But after George Floyd’s…
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Germany Appoints New Defense Minister as Pressure Mounts Over Ukraine
BERLIN — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has tapped Boris Pistorius, the interior minister of one of Germany’s largest states, to become…
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Hummus, Tahini and Other Tastes of Home in Jerusalem’s Old City
A local provides a throw-away-the-map food tour of the Muslim quarter, offering a window into the city that tourists rarely…
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Opinion
The Trouble With Paradise
One day in my 20s, several decades ago, I got on a plane in New York City and flew across…
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News
Global Push to Treat H.I.V. Leaves Children Behind
The stories the mothers tell when they gather at the Awendo Health Centre in western Kenya are a catalog of…