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The G.O.P. Returns to Its Bad Old Self

I’ve recently been reading about Warren Buffett’s father, Howard Buffett, a four-term Republican congressman from Nebraska. He seems to have…

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Why Leap Day Is Really About Party Planning

Judah Levine, top time researcher, explains how Feb. 29 was invented to keep the major holidays from colliding.

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The World May Be Entering a Much Bloodier Era

War is on the rise everywhere. When the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London published its authoritative Armed Conflict…

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Ukraine, Gaza and the Long Shadow of German Guilt

In “Out of the Darkness,” Frank Trentmann details the way people in the country that started World War II are…

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Finance

Joel Belz, Trailblazer in Christian Journalism, Is Dead at 82

Inspired by Time, he founded World magazine, covering politics, the arts and other subjects from a “God’s-eye” view.

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How to Be Smarter Than a Member of Congress

Why has the isolationist wing of Congress been blocking aid to Ukraine and become, in effect, a tool for President…

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Roy Calne, Pioneering British Organ-Transplant Surgeon, Dies at 93

His innovations in the use of drugs to prevent organ rejection helped bring a remarkable increase in the one-year survival…

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Arno J. Mayer, Unorthodox Historian of Europe’s Crises, Dies at 97

A Jewish refugee from the Nazis, he argued that World War I, World War II and the Holocaust were all…

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This Was a Terrible Year, and Also Maybe the Best One Yet for Humanity

As the year ends, civilians are dying at a staggering pace in Gaza and the genocide in Darfur may be…

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This Year, Make a Resolution About Something Bigger Than Yourself

New Year’s resolutions are penny-ante prayers. You are this way, but you hope to be that way. You used to…

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