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Reading With My Father

The last time I visited my parents, I borrowed a novel from the shelves in my old bedroom. Once, the books there belonged to me, but in the decades since I lived in this apartment, my father has commandeered the space. It’s only fitting. The two of us have always communicated through our libraries. For […]

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Her Face Was Unrecognizable After an Explosion. A Placenta Restored It.

Marcella Townsend remembers looking around the kitchen in shock. In the silence just after the explosion, before the pain kicked in, she found herself almost in awe of the crushed stove and the caved-in cabinets. “It was like Bigfoot had walked across the counters,” she said. In the aftermath of a propane explosion at her […]

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Biden’s Moral Failure in Israel

Joe Biden’s presidency has a distinct origin story. As he tells it, he was done with politics, happily retired from public life. That changed after Donald Trump’s equivocal response to the 2017 white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va. It was then that Mr. Biden realized that Mr. Trump and his allies threatened what he called […]

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A Patchwork Satire of Ivory Coast, Pre- and Post-Independence

“Comrade Papa” — the second novel by the pseudonymous Ivorian author and newspaper editor GauZ’, published in France in 2018 and newly translated by Frank Wynne — alternates in setting between 19th-century colonial Ivory Coast and 1970s Amsterdam. The two strands don’t converge until the end, after a patchwork of legends, folk tales, revolutionary diatribes […]

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We Can Do Better Than ‘Positive Masculinity’

Perhaps it’s a predictable irony that in an election cycle that could realistically deliver the first female president, so much of the commentary has been about men. Or rather, not about men exactly, but about “masculinity.” Because somehow, in 2024, we still find ourselves unable to talk about men and boys without using masculinity as […]

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Israel challenges U.N. court’s jurisdiction to issue a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest.

Israel has rejected the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants for its prime minister and defense minister over their conduct of the war in Gaza, in filings to the court made late last month that were reclassified as public on Friday. The Israeli filings rejecting the warrants are based on technical grounds, […]

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Labour just a single point clear of ousted Tories, new poll shows

LONDON — Less than 100 days into his Labour administration, Keir Starmer’s poll lead over the Conservatives he trounced at Britain’s general election has slumped to a single point. That’s the stark finding of a survey of 2,023 adults conducted by pollster More in Common and shared with POLITICO London Playbook. The survey, conducted over […]

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Soaring Insurance Costs Are Menacing Owners of Big Buildings, Too

Postpandemic vacancies and surging debt payments have eaten away at commercial real estate for more than two years. Even as those threats start to fade, owners of strip malls, apartment buildings and office towers face a problem that could last much longer: soaring insurance costs. The problem is familiar to homeowners across the country. The […]

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