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May 12, 2021
Modern Love Podcast: ‘Why Do People Get Married?’
Watching his grandmother enter her third marriage, Jake Maynard wondered if marriage was about care, convention — or something else entirely.
May 13, 2021
‘I Feel Like I’m Just Drowning’: Surviving Sophomore Year 2020
A group of high school students try desperately to make it through an isolated and dire year.
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May 13, 2021
The People in the Neighborhood
A powerful — and revealing — aspect of the Derek Chauvin trial was the community it created out of strangers.
May 15, 2021
The G.O.P.’s Big Cancellation
The party’s cancel mob runs wild on Capitol Hill.
May 13, 2021
This Is How Wokeness Ends
The meritocracy beats the radicals.
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May 14, 2021
The Hoover Dam Made Life in the West Possible. Or So We Thought.
Climate change threatens Las Vegas and every other desert oasis town.
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May 14, 2021
On Parole, Staying Free Means Staying Clean and Sober
A program called Swift, Certain and Fair — a set of principles for both supporting parolees and holding them accountable — can help reduce recidivism.
May 14, 2021
Elise Stefanik, Moderate? No, She’s Always Been a Shape-Shifter.
For those who have followed her career, her embrace of Trumpism doesn’t come as a big surprise.
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May 14, 2021
America’s Next Move? Vaccinate the World.
Vaccinating the world is possible. The United States should lead the way.
May 14, 2021
Bernie Sanders: The U.S. Must Support an Evenhanded Approach in the Middle East
America has a role to play in bringing peace to both Israelis and Palestinians.
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May 14, 2021
Why Charles Koch Wins When Our Energy System Breaks Down
When the next crisis hits the Colonial Pipeline, it will once again shut down. Panic buying will resume. And people will ask, yet again: How did this happen?
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May 14, 2021
Maybe We Need Masks Indoors Just a Bit Longer
The C.D.C. could have waited until we had managed to further reduce the spread of Covid-19.
May 15, 2021
Bias Is a Big Problem. But So Is ‘Noise.’
When it comes to mistaken judgments, there is more than one kind of error.
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May 15, 2021
What We Can Learn From Fearless Girls
Afghanistan shows that change comes through teachers as well as troops.
May 15, 2021
Young Americans, How Has George Floyd’s Death Influenced Your Life?
We want to hear from readers under 30 about their changing views of race and racism.
May 14, 2021
A Late-Pandemic Commute, Feeding Hate on YouTube and the Mariachis Unsilenced by Covid: The Week in Narrated Articles
Five articles from around The Times, narrated just for you.
May 15, 2021
Rombauer Wins the Preakness, Surging as Medina Spirit Fades to Third
The long-shot win assured that Bob Baffert’s colt could not claim a Triple Crown under the cloud of a positive drug test.
May 15, 2021
Tensions Among Democrats Grow Over Israel as the Left Defends Palestinians
Divisions within the party have burst into public view, with the party’s ascendant left viewing the Mideast conflict as a searing racial justice issue that carries echoes of U.S. politics.
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May 15, 2021
723 Epidemiologists on When and How the U.S. Can Fully Return to Normal
Government mandates are lifting, but these experts say the pandemic won’t really end nationally until more people, including children, are vaccinated.
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May 15, 2021
How a Genetic Trait in Black People Can Give the Police Cover
Sickle cell trait has been cited in dozens of police custody deaths ruled accidental or natural, even though the condition is benign on its own, a Times investigation found.
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May 15, 2021
Violence Shakes Trump’s Boast of ‘New Middle East’
Trump officials said the Abraham Accords between Israel and four Arab states would transform the region, but new Israeli-Palestinian clashes lay bare the limits of that change.
May 15, 2021
After Years of Quiet, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Exploded. Why Now?
A little-noticed police action in Jerusalem last month was one of several incidents that led to the current crisis.
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May 15, 2021
What Would It Take to Vaccinate the World Against Covid?
When President Biden joined a push to set aside patents for Covid shots, he entered a roiling debate over how to ensure poor countries get enough vaccine.
May 15, 2021
G.O.P. Pursues Harsher Penalties for Poll Workers in Voting Crackdown
Heavy fines, felony charges and jail sentences: Republicans seeking to restrict voting are proposing strict punishments for election officials and workers who make errors or violate the rules.
May 15, 2021
Mask? No Mask? New Rules Leave Americans Recalibrating, Hour by Hour
The C.D.C. said fully vaccinated people could safely go most places without a mask. Not everyone was sure, or ready.
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