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The Exhilarating Jolt of the Milwaukee Bucks’ Wildcat Strike
The spectacle of the empty court on Wednesday night, a stage for action rendered radiantly fallow, was a rejection of normalcy.
The Manic Denialism of the Republican National Convention
Speakers at the R.N.C. keep ringing the same notes: fabricated panic followed by hoarse Panglossianism. They owe a debt to Ronald Reagan.
Linking Allies to Action in the Heart of the Black-Bookstore Boom
As the nation contemplates remaking itself, a new bookstore owner in Tulsa wants her white customers to go beyond just reading.
The Day Malcolm X Was Killed
At the height of his powers, the Black Nationalist leader was assassinated, and the government botched the investigation of his murder.
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The Special Hypocrisy of Melania Trump’s R.N.C. Speech
In conjuring the image of herself as a charitable, empathetic First Lady, Melania mirrored exactly her husband’s farce of magnanimity.
Can Biden’s Center Hold?
After a career built on incremental progress, Joe Biden is promising a Presidency of transformational change. The election will test whether his campaign can bring together a divided Party and a beleaguered country.
Should You Send Your Child Back to School During the Pandemic?
The parenting expert Emily Oster weighs the costs and benefits.
“The City,” a Classic Documentary of Visionary Urban Planning
The film’s over-all design is enormously ambitious: in just a forty-three-minute span, it encapsulates an entire theory of social rise and fall.
When the Ice-Cream Man Goes Rogue
A Brooklyn block was a peaceful pandemic oasis . . . until Mister Softee showed up and crashed through wooden police barricades. But wait! Could it have been his evil twin, Mister Smashee?
A Moderately Challenging Puzzle
Only hyphenated letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet: four letters.
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Trump’s Convention and the Allure of the Politics of Fear
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An advance copy of the President’s final R.N.C. speech reveals that he will paint an ominous picture of uninterrupted postal delivery and athletic events.
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The Self-Guided, Outdoor Theatre of “Cairns”
The downtown arts center HERE offers a novel approach to pandemic theatre, in which participants download audio tracks and traverse the grounds of Green-Wood Cemetery.
A “Beowulf” for Our Moment
Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang.
Jessie Buckley: From “Fargo” to the Inside of Charlie Kaufman’s Head
The Irish actress talks about starring in the director’s new movie, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” which pays homage to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”
“The Sand Banks, 1861”
“We were children yet, but not children for long. Such was the life of a slave.”
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Can Broadway Boom Again After COVID-19?
Actors, directors, and stagehands come together to keep the heart of the city alive while awaiting a physical return to the Broadway stage.
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Will Ahmaud Arbery Get Justice?
We try to explain why prosecutors let a young man’s killers walk free. Plus, a conversation with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross about their score for “Watchmen.”
