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Ricardo Scofidio Was the Wizard Behind the High Line’s Magic

Ricardo Scofidio Was the Wizard Behind the High Line’s ...

What Ricardo Scofidio really wanted to do in designing a park that transformed i...

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Why Creole Languages Are Not Broken English

Why Creole Languages Are Not Broken English

How a pidgin became a Creole

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Trump’s English-Only Rule Is an Unkind Policy for a Nonexistent Problem

Trump’s English-Only Rule Is an Unkind Policy for a Non...

The story of how a gendered word became a universal pronoun says a lot about how...

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Kanye West and the Limits of Free Speech Online

Kanye West and the Limits of Free Speech Online

Where is the line between the right to speech and the right to reach?

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The MAGA Youth Remind Me of the 1980s and Not in a Good Way

The MAGA Youth Remind Me of the 1980s and Not in a Good...

I worshiped Ronald Reagan and big hair in the 1980s. The MAGA youth of today rem...

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On Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A ‘Complete Unknown’

On Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A ‘Complete Unknown’

A poem from Deborah Garrison about watching the actor’s transporting performance...

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In ‘A Complete Unknown,’ the Clothes Are Also Singing

In ‘A Complete Unknown,’ the Clothes Are Also Singing

Costumes aren’t just for show. They can help develop the character, set a tone, ...

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America Loses Its Soul When It Rejects People Fleeing Danger

America Loses Its Soul When It Rejects People Fleeing D...

A civilized society protects the world’s most vulnerable.

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Ben Stiller on Gene Hackman’s Simple Truth

Ben Stiller on Gene Hackman’s Simple Truth

What he told me on the set of “The Royal Tenenbaums” has stayed with me ever since.

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My film ‘Sugarcane’ Is Up for an Oscar. Here’s What I Hope Happens Next.

My film ‘Sugarcane’ Is Up for an Oscar. Here’s What I H...

“Sugarcane” is a documentary about abuse at Native residential schools. It’s jus...

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