The Kidnapping I Can’t Escape
Fifty years ago, my father’s friend was taken at gunpoint on Long Island. Then he went on with his life — and that’s the part that haunts me.
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New York is trying to treat an addictive substance just like any other product.
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The Bleak, Nihilistic Show Russians Can’t Stop Watching
The streaming hit, “The Boy’s Word,” about youth gangs in the last years of the Soviet Union, says grim things about the national mood.
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My dad always remembered his childhood journey through Europe. Now, with Alzheimer’s claiming his memories, we tried to recreate it.
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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez flipped a rural red district to get to Congress. Now she wants to help her party do more of the same.
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