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The Sunday Read: ‘Hard Times’
How the folk duo Gillian Welch and David Rawlings held onto optimism.
How the folk duo Gillian Welch and David Rawlings held onto optimism.
The state’s lieutenant governor has been tweeting since election night. Mostly he’s trying to get the president to understand simple arithmetic.
“Honesty is linear.” Relationships require work and redefining, year after year.
We listened in on the country’s partisan echo chambers. Plus, the music behind Modern Love.
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President Trump’s refusal to concede the election is holding up the traditional transition process. What risks does that pose?
A major advance in the race to develop a coronavirus shot has raised hopes that mass immunization could bring an end to the pandemic.
Democrats were optimistic about gaining control of the upper chamber, but it didn’t pan out that way. Now, a pair of races in Georgia will determine the balance of power in Washington.
Joe Biden may have won the election, but the margin of victory was much closer than experts had predicted. Why?
We traveled the country to capture dispatches from a divided nation.
Feeling election stress? These two stories about a man and his dog may help.
When it comes to forbidden love, a “romantic plan isn’t enough.”
Love stories cut short by the unexpected live on in alternate endings.
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Chamath Palihapitiya made his fortune with bold predictions and bets on the future. That wealth gives him influence well beyond Silicon Valley — but should it?
The couples counsellor has some advice for how to heal “the screaming match” in a relationship — and in our nation.
So why is Jeff VanderMeer so hopeful? The author of “Annihilation” on seeing our world as strange, wonderful—and worth saving.
The comedian delighted millions with her Trump lip-syncs. After the election, she may be on to her next act.
How antitrust lawyer Lina Khan is taking on the most powerful men in Silicon Valley.
Byrne talks about his work with the artist Maira Kalman on his latest book, and Brittany K. Barnett discusses “A Knock at Midnight.”
Ernest Freeberg talks about “A Traitor to His Species,” and the illustrator Christian Robinson discusses his career in picture books.
Peter Guralnick talks about “Looking to Get Lost,” and Alex Ross discusses “Wagnerism.”
Ian McGuire talks about his new novel, and Elisabeth Egan discusses Romy Hausmann’s “Dear Child.”
Alan Mikhail talks about “God’s Shadow,” and Benjamin Lorr discusses “The Secret Life of Groceries.”
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A conversation about her unique route to the top of the charts — and what’s next.
A conversation about her memoir, her range of contributions to pop music and her secret alt-rock album.
The Nashville singer and songwriter learned from the genre’s past and carved his own path.
The pandemic has sped up how digital look-alikes are reshaping stardom.
“Old Town Road” showed the app’s potential as a hit generator. But its relationship to the business is far more complex.
An unexpected last chapter. Some white parents start behaving differently.
Is it possible to limit the power of white parents?
How white parents can shape a school, even when they aren’t there.
White parents in the 1960s fought to be part of a new, racially integrated school in Brooklyn. So why did their children never attend?
From Serial and The New York Times: “Nice White Parents” looks at the 60-year relationship between white parents and the public school down the block.
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There’s a difference between our dreams for America — and our fantasies.
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Do we have enough bread crumbs to get to the truth?
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We explore the erasure of Aunt Jemima and the reconciliation of that icon.
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A young man finds escape on the internet. He doesn’t realize that on the other side of the screen, a force is pulling him in.
Five years into a rabbit hole, Caleb goes from one side of the screen to the other.
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