Year: 2023
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World
New York City Is Set to End Most Uses of Solitary Confinement
The City Council vote has highlighted a broader debate over whether solitary confinement is torture or a legitimate form of…
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World
He Was Wrongly Convicted of Killing Her Father. She Set Out to Free Him.
Karen Dannett stared at her computer screen on June 9, 2014, and thought about what she might write. Finally, she…
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World
New York City, for Some Jews, Feels Newly Tense
Tovah Feldshuh was sitting on the subway recently, headed uptown, when she encountered something she had never witnessed in her…
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World
Field Trips Today: Museums, but Also Wastewater Plants
Though school trips have evolved as science curriculums have changed, 400,000 children still flock to the American Museum of Natural…
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World
The Hot New Market in Crypto? Trading FTX’s Carcass.
Investors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on FTX bankruptcy claims, betting that the firm’s new leaders will recover…
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World
U.K. Inflation Unexpectedly Cools to 3.9 Percent, Lowest in 2 Years
The News A streak of unexpectedly good news on inflation has continued in Britain, as the annual rate of price…
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World
Bird, an Electric Scooter Company, Files for Bankruptcy
The company, once a high-flying start-up whose services were hailed as the next big thing in personal transportation, lost much…
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World
What Does the Red Sea Crisis Mean for Oil Prices?
The Latest Energy companies like BP and shipping companies that transport crude oil have stopped sending some tankers through the…
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Real Estate
Bernardsville, N.J.: A Gilded Age Enclave Looking to the Future
With grand estates and rolling meadows, this Somerset County borough has long attracted the wealthy. But now it’s courting younger,…
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Magazine
He Was My Role Model. My Mentor. My Supplier.
O.G. rings me in the a.m. to say he’s just touched down in Phoenix. It’s the day before he said…