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Guess Who’s Coming to Mordor

Emilia Clarke does not have purple eyes. Her character in HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” Daenerys Targaryen, is described in the…

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Democracy Under Siege From Autocrats, Social Media and Its Own Failures

This article is from a special report on the Athens Democracy Forum, which convenes this week in the Greek capital…

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Your Friday Briefing

Volunteers at a food bank in London.Credit...Mary Turner for The New York TimesA global campaign to crush inflation Central banks…

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Saul Kripke, Philosopher Who Found Truths in Semantics, Dies at 81

Saul Kripke, a math prodigy and pioneering logician whose revolutionary theories on language qualified him as one of the 20th…

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Chile Says ‘No’ to Left-Leaning Constitution After 3 Years of Debate

SANTIAGO, Chile — For the past three years, Chileans have fought over a new path forward for their country in…

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Overlooked No More: Vera Menchik, First Women’s Chess Champion

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported…

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Please Don’t Make a Tolkien Cinematic Universe

In the months leading up to its premiere this Friday, Amazon Prime’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of…

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Jean-Jacques Sempé, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89

Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist known in America for children’s book illustrations and for covers for The New Yorker portraying…

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Astronomers May Have Found the Galaxy’s Youngest Planet

Over the last 30 years, astronomers have found more than 5,000 exoplanets, an eclectic menagerie of worlds far from our…

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Scenes From the Chess Olympiad: Magnus Carlsen Is Still on Top of His Game

The chess world was left reeling by the surprise announcement last month that its biggest star, Magnus Carlsen, would surrender…

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