How does a democracy protect itself against a political leader who is openly hostile to democratic self-rule? This is the dilemma the nation …
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The Glow of a Wedding Amid Bombs and Blackouts
“Say it louder,” the groom’s father teased the young couple. The timid “I do’s” barely registered in the high-ceilinged Odesa wedding hall. I …
Continue readingA Posthumous Solo Album Reveals a Jazz Star’s Melancholy
Following the death of Esbjörn Svensson, a pianist and one of Europe’s most influential jazz musicians, in a scuba diving accident in 2008, his …
Continue readingA Thanksgiving Binge Menu: 7 Fall Shows You Might Have Slept On
My childhood Thanksgivings involved television in a very specific sense: After the big meal, all the men in the family would retire to the living …
Continue readingCecilia Marshall, Rights Advocate and Widow of Justice, Dies at 94
Cecilia Marshall, who as an NAACP stenographer transcribed the legal briefs for the Brown v. Board of Education decision and then married …
Continue readingWhat Are ‘Dabloons,’ the Imaginary Currency of TikTok?
It started with a picture of a cat’s paw. It became a game of wins and losses, a warped mirror of capitalist reality and, importantly, a giant …
Continue readingHow Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling.
LONDON — For Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the director of Vienna’s Leopold Museum, the last few weeks have been challenging. As climate protesters …
Continue readingReview: At the Philharmonic, a Taste of Holiday Bounty
Thanksgiving came a day early at the New York Philharmonic this year: the calories, the juicy fat, the whipped cream, the fun, the sense of …
Continue readingIs Homeownership Slipping Even Further Out of Reach for New Yorkers?
Jennifer Kopp decided early, when she was a child growing up in public housing in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn, that she would be …
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