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The Golden State Warriors are headed in the wrong direction right now. They have lost six of their last 10 games and two of their most important players, Stephen Curry and Kristaps Porzingis, are ...

A person prays on Ash Wednesday at St. Patrick's Cathedral on March 5 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/ Getty Images via AFP) This year is the 80th anniversary of the end of a truly ...

Caitlin Flanagan, whose writing in The Atlantic cuts to the heart of modern life’s most charged topics, has a way of expressing truths that feel both deeply personal and universal. She explores her ...

This book, by one of our leading journalists, is much more than just another eyewitness report on things seen and heard in various parts of the world. It is an interpretation of our times in which the ...