The pandemic has highlighted the United States’ dependence on China for research animals, reviving calls for a “strategic monkey reserve.”The pandemic has highlighted the United…
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Anti-Defamation League Takes Issue With Michael Che’s Vaccine Joke On ‘SNL’
The dig on “Weekend Update” sparks complaints, but spotlights the stark vaccine gulf between Israelis and Palestinians.The dig on “Weekend Update” sparks complaints, but spotlights…
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From cholera to AIDS, epidemics have given rise to landmarks around the world, be they sculptures, churches or feats of engineering. In this dire moment,…
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In her new novel, “The Smash-Up,” Ali Benjamin takes readers on an exhilarating ride through a crisis propelled by real-life events.In her new novel, “The…
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“Tangled Up in Blue,” by Rosa Brooks, and “We Own This City,” by Justin Fenton, take readers inside two police forces (in Washington and Baltimore)…
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“Raceless,” by Georgina Lawton, and “Surviving The White Gaze,” by Rebecca Carroll, follow two Black women who discover their racial identity after a childhood separated…
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New books look at what it was like to be in the Roman military 2,000 years ago and in the American military today.New books look…
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In “Two Truths and a Lie,” “Confident Women” and “The Officer’s Daughter,” readers feel the aftershocks of felonies and malfeasances.In “Two Truths and a Lie,”…
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The protagonist of Jack Livings’s novel, “The Blizzard Party,” recalls the late-1970s blowout bash in an Upper West Side penthouse that marked her and her…
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