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Christopher Durang, Playwright Who Mixed High Art and Low Humor, Dies at 75

In a career spanning more than 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown.

A Gender Theorist Who Just Wants Everyone to Get Along

Judith Butler’s new book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?,” tries to turn down the heat on an inflamed argument.

The Problem With Parents

The children in these illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad…

Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends

Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court…

Dengue Fever Is Surging and We’re Looking the Other Way

I hate mosquitoes so much that I bring my own bug repellent to parties. But in early March, on a…

Trump’s Backers Are Determined Not to Blow It This Time Around

In a rare display of unity, more than one hundred conservative tax-exempt organizations have joined forces in support of Donald…

José Andrés: Let People Eat

In the worst conditions you can imagine — after hurricanes, earthquakes, bombs and gunfire — the best of humanity shows…

The Appalling Tactics of the ‘Free Palestine’ Movement

Last week, Susanne DeWitt, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who later became a molecular biologist, spoke before the Berkeley, Calif., City…

Stuck Ships and Supply-Chain Inflation

It has been a week since the Dali, a container ship, struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. It’s…

Restaurant Review: A New Voice in Soul Food Rises on Staten Island

At Shaw-naé’s House, Shaw-naé herself serves up Southern classics and a warm welcome to her “living room.”

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