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The U.F.C. President, Dana White, on Donald Trump: “He’s Not a Racist”
There will be a variety of celebrations to honor America’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary this year. Much of it is to be expected: fireworks, r…
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America at 250: A View from the Streets
The staff writer and historian Jill Lepore is an admirer of the Federal Writers’ Project, and the man-on-the-street form of documentary it helped to …
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The History Wars and America at 250, with the Historian Jill Lepore
The two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence arrives during intense disputes about American history, as the Trump Admi…
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Growing Up with a Mother in Prison
Harriet Clark’s novel, “The Hill,” is one of the most anticipated works of fiction of the year. It’s a story of a girl growing up visiting her mother…
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Barack Obama in the Trump Era
The contributing writer Peter Slevin met with Barack Obama at the new Obama Presidential Center, which opens next month, in Chicago, and asked him th…
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The N.B.A. Legend Steve Kerr
Most basketball fans first took note of Steve Kerr when he played for the Chicago Bulls in the nineteen-nineties, but it’s through coaching that Kerr…
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How a Trump-Endorsed Republican Could Become California’s Next Governor
In the governor’s race in California, the leading Republican candidate appears to be Steve Hilton, a British-born political consultant and former Fox…
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“Fat Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Problem
Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of a new collection of short stories entitled “Fat Swim.” Her work questions body image and the suppression of fa…
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Why Senator Rand Paul Voted to Limit Donald Trump’s War Powers
One of Donald Trump’s few critics within his party is the libertarian-leaning senator Rand Paul, from Kentucky. Paul was recently the sole Republican…
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Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death
When Patrick Radden Keefe was living in London while shooting the TV adaptation of his book “Say Nothing,” he heard about a teen-ager who fell from a…
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