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Your Money

Want Hopeful Signs From 2016? Look to Some of Its Aggravations

Glimmers of hope emerged on some consumer irritants of the year, including airline and rental-car fees, and college tuition transparency.

Services I do not use.

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Times Insider

Good, Bad and Mad: Andrew Rosenthal on the News of the Year

Year-End Special: The opinion columnist Andrew Rosenthal on the good, bad and most maddening news of 2016.

The year is hours from over.

3
Times Insider

Forcing a District Attorney’s Hand

When the photographer cracked the door and inserted his lens, Mr. Valeska shifted his questioning (and gesturing) to a closet.

Mr. Valeska is unsure of the law.

4
U.S.

Inside the Trump Organization, the Company That Has Run Trump’s Big World

An examination of the company reveals a distinctly family business fortified with longtime loyalists that operates less on standardized procedures and more on a culture of Trump.

I am not prosecuting Donald Trump.
I can believe he is guilty.

5
Travel

Discounts at Caribbean Resorts, Even in High Season

Club Med, Holland America Line and a resort in the Bahamas are among those offering lower rates and spending credits.

These resorts are feeling hungry.

6
U.S.

Peabody Energy and Native Americans in Dispute Over Mining in Arizona

Navajo and Hopi leaders support the coal company, whose mine has provided jobs on reservations, but other tribe members say an expansion would destroy burial grounds.

The Hopi and Navajo are getting a raw deal.

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U.S.

After 15 Big Mall Fights, Police See a Culprit: Teenage Boredom

The day after Christmas is one of the busiest shopping days of the year, luring shoppers looking for a bargain, and teenagers looking for trouble.

OK

8
Opinion

In a Los Angeles Neighborhood, Teenagers Report the News

For the working-class neighborhood of Boyle Heights, a newspaper written by youths might be more important than ever.

The local news is always important to involved people.

9
Opinion

To Make the World Better, Think Small

It is easy to become numb to suffering. Feeling empathy for individual victims can overcome the numbness.

Yes.  
Take action. 
Do it in small ways.

10
U.S.

‘Church Militant’ Theology Is Put to New, and Politicized, Use

Its use by a right-wing website and others has gone well beyond its longstanding meaning in the Catholic Church, one of spiritual warfare.

The Trump coalition has an ugly membership.
Mr, Trump appears unwilling to distance himself from most of it.
Chris Christie appears to be out.

Happy New Year!

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Business Day

2016 Was a Year for Undoing Major Deals

Big takeovers by the likes of the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the Oreos maker Mondelez and the office supply retailer Staples were all consigned to the scrap heap.

I am not sorry.

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Business Day

The Pitfalls of Trying to Read a Co-Worker’s Mind

A blind man is sensitive to his colleagues’ misconceptions. He then realizes he has his own.

Communication helps.

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Business Day

After Uncertain Year, New Administration Portends Shift in Wall Street Scrutiny

With a businessman in the White House, markets will have to adjust to different views on what constitutes a violation of securities laws.

Yes.
Things will be different.

14
Magazine

Vivek Murthy Thinks We Need to Learn How to Deal With Stress

The surgeon general on the Affordable Care Act, the historic campaign to curb tobacco use and whether or not the president takes his advice.

He has and will deal with stress.
The public will deal with more stress.

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Business Day

Walmart Slowly Makes Strides in E-Commerce

This year’s $3.3 billion acquisition of Jet.com will accelerate the push to compete with Amazon in 2017.

Walmart has a destructive business model.
I do not wish them success.
Walmart is a near monopoly.

16
Health

Can Psychiatric Drugs Blunt the Mother-Baby Bond?

Antidepressants and other medications can affect bonding, but letting an illness go untreated is far riskier for both mother and baby.

All I can make of this is: Seek help.

17
World

François Hollande Pardons French Woman Who Killed Abusive Husband

Jacqueline Sauvage, who was sentenced to 10 years for murdering her spouse, already had her sentence partly commuted by President François Hollande.

I cannot read minds.

18
Well

Why I Talk About My Daughter’s Body

I struggle with bulimia, and I want my 11-year-old to grow up with a healthier body image than my own.

I need to move more.

19
T Magazine

15 of T’s Most Enjoyable Stories in 2016

Great pieces that inspire, delight and make you think. (Just right for weekend reading.)

A Brisk Swim Across Martha’s Vineyard
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Technology

Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing

The rapid expansion of internet-connected devices will put even more power in the hands of a few companies with the biggest cloud services.

It is described as a race to the bottom.
It is also an end to privacy.
Any system can be hacked.

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