Month: December 2022
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The Invention of Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik had had enough. In the wake of the 2018 midterms, the young congresswoman was sick of commuting to…
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Jean Franco, 98, Pioneering Scholar of Latin American Literature, Dies
She infused her work with political and feminist perspectives and insisted that art had to be understood within its social…
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Russia’s War Could Make It India’s World
Seated in the domed, red sandstone government building unveiled by the British Raj less than two decades before India threw…
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Biden Set an Ambitious Goal for Nature. It’s Time He Went After It.
Compared with the United Nations climate change summit in Egypt in November, the U.N. biodiversity conference held in Montreal this…
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For Lula and the World, the Tough Job of Saving the Amazon Begins
When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sworn in as president of Brazil for an unprecedented third term on Sunday,…
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I Edited Mental Illness Out of My College Applications. I’m Not Alone.
When I applied to college in the 2009-10 school year, I wasn’t worried about my grades or extracurriculars. Instead, I…
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Benedicto XVI, primer papa moderno en renunciar, muere a los 95 años
El papa emérito definió un rumbo conservador para la Iglesia católica romana, pero su papado se destacó por su dificultad…
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How Barbara Walters Went From ‘Today Girl’ to Pioneering Media Star
Long before she became the first woman to co-anchor a network newscast and the foremost prime-time interviewer of heads of…
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Benedict was criticized for his leadership of the church’s sex abuse scandal.
The clerical sex abuse scandal festered and then broke open under Pope John Paul II in the years that Cardinal…
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The Choice of a Medically Assisted Death
Readers discuss a column by Ross Douthat criticizing Canada’s medical assistance in dying law.