A special seat in Union Square Park, impatience overheard and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
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The Man Who Neutered Trump
It’s not surprising that Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, fresh off his re-election victory, would take a field trip to the Adventure Outdoors megastore. Shooting ranges, gunsmithing, machetes, tomahawks, ammo, camo, “over 130 yards of gun counters” with …
Continue readingI Still Believe in Effective Altruism, Emphasis on ‘Effective’
Credit…Pavel PopovThis article is part of Times Opinion’s Holiday Giving Guide 2022. Read more about the guide in a note from Opinion’s editor, Kathleen Kingsbury. This is my annual giving column, so I won’t beat around the bush. I recommend …
Continue readingThe Teen Romance Novel That Russia’s Politicians Just Can’t Bear
In the summer of 1986, Yury, a shy 16-year-old, arrives at a Young Pioneer camp in Crimea, dreading the many dull weeks ahead of him. There’s only one thing that cheers him up: his group leader Volodya, a 19-year-old undergraduate. Slowly, the two …
Continue readingHow Democrats’ New Primary Calendar Changes the Chessboard
President Biden’s push to abandon Iowa for younger, racially diverse states is likely to reward candidates who connect with the party’s most loyal voters.
Continue readingFree to Be You and Me. Or Not.
If you grew up in any remotely liberal enclave of America in the 1970s or 1980s, you grew up believing a few things. You believed that you lived in a land where the children were free, where it didn’t matter whether you were a boy or a girl because …
Continue readingChina’s Struggle With Covid Is Just Beginning
China’s leaders are in a dangerous dilemma. Their obsession with eliminating the coronavirus has spared the country the pandemic death rates suffered by other major countries, but at a steep cost: severe social and economic pain that led last weekend …
Continue readingYouTube Stars Rhett and Link Think This Is Their Moment
In high school, Rhett McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln Neal III, known as Link, met in a North Carolina cow pasture to swear a blood oath. They sliced their hands with sharp rocks and vowed to do big things in showbiz — even though they had no …
Continue readingDefamation Suit Against Fox Grows More Contentious
Lachlan Murdoch is set to be deposed on Monday, the latest in a flurry of activity in the high-stakes case.
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