To the Editor: Re “My Mom Showed Me Life With Alzheimer’s Is Worth Living,” by Stephen Gettinger (Opinion guest essay, June 10): I watched my…
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Sorn Bangkok – The Economic Times
There’s Bangkok’s superb street food. And then there’s Sorn, the 2-Michelin star restaurant housed in a beautiful 90-year-old building in Bangkok’s central Khlong Toei district.…
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Opinion | Slavery Didn’t End With Emancipation. It Persists in U.S. Prisons.
Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the day when word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the farthest outpost in America. Many people do not realize that Emancipation…
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Better clubbing than be a club member
Some hollowed circles in London, such as Seth Alexander Thevoz, author of Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members’ Clubs, seem to…
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Opinion | How Scared Should I Be of Bird Flu?
How worried you should be about H5N1, the bird flu virus spreading on dairy farms in the United States, depends on who you are. The…
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Binge-watching is injurious to health
We hear that US surgeon general Vivek Murthy is keen to have a warning label on social media platforms telling parents that using social media…
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Opinion | Effective Altruism Is Flawed. But What’s the Alternative?
You don’t hear so much about effective altruism now that one of its most famous exponents, Sam Bankman-Fried, was found guilty of stealing $8 billion…
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Don’t scrimp on train travel safety
While more Indians are travelling by air than ever before, more than 22 mn on an average still travel in 13,000-plus passenger trains daily. This…
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Opinion | How Capitalism Went Off the Rails
The Group of 7 countries might have set a record when they met in Italy last week. Has there ever been a less popular assemblage…
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EU’s ill-fitting suite for ‘greener’ norms
Changes to EU’s Ecodesign Directive banning destruction of unsold textiles – and footwear – purportedly to establish sustainability requirements, will have its biggest impact on…
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Opinion | Planning the Resistance to Trump
To the Editor: Re “Trump Resisters Draft Playbook in Case He Wins” (front page, June 16): The resistance to a potential second Trump administration is…
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Knowledge economy, not silly conformity
A school or college syllabus is not propaganda. One would have thought that the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) would know this…
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Opinion | An Israeli Hostage Parent: Comparing Hamas to the Nazis Is Wrong
On Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel, murdered approximately 1,200 people and abducted more than 240 others. One of those kidnapped was my 35-year-old…
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God of tough things, a compensation tale
Even gentle souls don’t like it when they’re called ‘weak’. As a natural reaction, they make gestures to prove their toughness. For individuals, this can…
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