Ibn Khaldun, the 14th-century North African scholar, wrote that empires tended not to last beyond three generations. The founders of the first …
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While the risks of deaths and hospitalizations from Covid-19 are substantially lower now, navigating this phase of the pandemic can be …
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Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ In his latest work, “The Last White Man,” the award-winning writer Mohsin Hamid imagines a world that is very …
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The Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds, 4-2, on Thursday, but that was hardly the point. Major League Baseball had once again found its way to …
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The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. This week’s issue is written by Natasha Frost, a reporter with the …
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What do a rapper, a parody specialist and a knitting-obsessed makeup artist have in common? All of them are “microinfluencers” who have signed up …
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WASHINGTON— After four years of President Donald J. Trump’s raging against his intelligence services, posting classified information to Twitter …
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MARFA, Texas—Donald Judd’s sculptures are ticking. In the high desert 100 gleaming aluminum forms — each the exact same size — are aligned in …
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