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After the Civil War, many intellectuals believed that illiteracy among Southerners who did not own slaves had allowed them to...

A year after the dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled, Syrians are still waiting to see any concrete form of transitional...

Last spring, in his quest to become one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Victor Wembanyama, a 7-foot-4...

In the HBO series “Task,” whose first season concluded last month, Mark Ruffalo plays Tom Brandis, an F.B.I. agent investigating...

HOUSE OF DAY, HOUSE OF NIGHT, by Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones One of the minor subplots of Olga...

The Austrian composer and sound artist Dorit Chrysler was at a marketplace years ago, in the Serbian town of Gornji...

The session was called “Defeating Impostor Syndrome.” Dr. Marianna Papageorge, a 35-year-old fellow in thoracic surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering...

While U.S. alcohol consumption has fallen to a record low amid growing awareness of the health harms, coffee — once...

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The nationwide redistricting arms race is growing increasingly unpredictable. Courts are knocking down maps. Republicans are breaking with President Trump....

Lloyd Doggett had been set to bow out of politics after three decades in the U.S. House after Republicans in...

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In the holiday comedy “Oh. What. Fun.,” which begins streaming Wednesday on Prime Video, Jason Schwartzman’s character, Doug, is spending...