Christine Blasey Ford returns
March 19, 2024
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One Way Back. By Christine Blasey Ford. St Martin’s Press; 320 pages; $29 and £24.99 “Most memoirs are the story behind a life. This is the life behind a story.” So begins “One Way Back” Read More
Deposing the King of Israel
March 18, 2024
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AFTER WEEKS of Israel flouting America’s advice on making greater provision for civilians in Gaza, on March 14th something snapped. Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader and one of Israel’s staunchest supporters in the Democratic Read More
Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden pile pressure on Binyamin Netanyahu
March 18, 2024
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CHUCK SCHUMER, the majority leader of the US Senate and America’s highest-ranking Jewish official, is fond of noting that his surname derives from the Hebrew word shomer, or guardian. Although his primary obligation is to Read More
America’s fentanyl epidemic, explained in six charts
March 16, 2024
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SOMETIMES A TREND does not need to be new to be shocking. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times more potent than heroin, has long been used as a powerful painkiller in hospitals. But Read More
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women are staging a sex-strike
March 15, 2024
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. In Aristophanes’s play “Lysistrata”, a young Athenian woman persuades the women of warring Greek states Read More
Amtrak’s ridership is touching record highs
March 15, 2024
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. At 7pm on a Friday night, the Illini service, a train that runs from southern Read More
Time is called on Oregon’s decriminalisation experiment
March 15, 2024
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Florists are usually cheerful places. But Gifford’s Flowers, in downtown Portland, has been going through Read More
Is deploying soldiers on New York’s subway as mad as it seems?
March 15, 2024
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. NEW YORKERS have seen it all in the subway. They watch in appreciation as a Read More
The best dataset on American health care will be harder to access
March 15, 2024
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Prachi Sanghavi, a health-policy researcher at the University of Chicago, studies whether ambulances that provide Read More
America’s extraordinary economy keeps defying the pessimists
March 14, 2024
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You have to marvel at America’s economy. Not long ago it was widely thought to be on the brink of recession. Instead it ended 2023 nearly 3% larger than 12 months earlier, having enjoyed one Read More