To the Editor: Re “O Canada, Come Join Us,” by Ross Douthat (column, Jan. 12): Dear Mr. Douthat, We read your invitation to join the…
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Tomar Ghore: Anusheh Anadil – The Economic Times
It’s impossible not to be intoxicated by Anusheh Anadil‘s raw, earthy voice. And when the Bangladeshi singer sings the old Bengali tune, ‘Tomar ghore‘ (In…
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Opinion | Trump Barely Won the Election. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?
In 2024, Donald Trump won the popular vote by 1.5 points. Trump and Democrats alike treated this result as an overwhelming repudiation of the left…
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Going into the closet, with a movie-shopping tote bag
Yesterday, I dreamt once more that I was in the ‘Criterion Closet,’ the film closet owned and stocked by the home video distribution company, The…
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Opinion | The World Is a Mess, and It’s Still the Best Time to Be Alive
Around the beginning of each year, I customarily write a column about how we’ve just had the “best year ever” in the long history of…
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Earthlings, very soon there’ll be more Indians outside India than inside
When I was working in the US in the early 2000s, a friend joked that there were so many Indians in the US, and so…
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Opinion | A Racist Purge Almost Destroyed My Family. Another One Is Coming.
Koji Kudo, ID badge #4441-G. His head is shaved, likely by one of my aunts, with the old manual hair clippers that he used to…
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There’s no pause on ‘menopause misogyny’
As we get comfy into another new year, the battle against misogyny continues to rage, spilling over into every corner of women’s lives. Recently, the…
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Opinion | On Its 10th Anniversary, ‘Hamilton’ Looks Heartbreakingly Different
I’m a Black millennial, I write about politics, and I love music. Yet for reasons too complicated to puzzle through, I recently found myself in…
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Walking over to the balcony… in space
When US astronaut Sunita Williams radioed down to Nasa earlier this week, ‘I’m coming out,’ it could have sounded like she was stepping out for…
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Opinion | How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms
But as a C.E.O., you can’t fire 80 percent of my team. And by the way, I have to go hire people to replace them.…
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The gratitude trick: Gratitude is a clever trick marketed to avoid taking responsibility &…
Have you seen the rich constantly talk about gratitude on social media? Are they thanking people for making them rich? Are they thanking God for…
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Opinion | What the Cease-Fire Deal Really Means
With the long-sought cease-fire agreement now in place, both President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump can claim credit for the accomplishment, while Israel and Hamas…
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View: Because bad construction is good business
When visiting ancient or medieval monuments, the thought immediately comes to mind that our ancestors really built things to last. Through centuries of exposure and…
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