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Chronicles of a Bubble-Tea Addict
Like me, boba spent its adolescence as a scrappy, enterprising immigrant at America’s periphery. For a new generation, it’s a ubiquitous, Instagram-friendly mark of Asian identity.
The Biden Administration’s Landmark Day in the Climate Fight
The newly announced actions may well mark the beginning of the end of the fossil-fuel era.
Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again?
Reflections on a post-Trump week of refreshingly Presidential behavior and predictably partisan feuding.
Denzel Washington Sweats “The Little Things”
Few actors rise so effortlessly above poor material, but the implausibilities of John Lee Hancock’s film are a challenge for Washington and his co-stars.
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Did Trump and His Supporters Commit Treason?
Few events in American history have matched the Framers’ definition as clearly as the insurrection of January 6th.
The Revelations of an Unlikely Pairing
In a show at Zwirner, the soft cosmos of Giorgio Morandi’s domestic tableaux is relieved and refreshed by the architectonics of Josef Albers’s squares.
A World-Class Guitar-Maker Picks Through the Ashes
Fire undid Todd Clinesmith’s way of life in a few moments.
A Taste of New York at Rolo’s
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