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World
After U.S. Backs Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s Leader, Maduro Cuts Ties
President Nicolás Maduro, facing a direct challenge to his hold on power, told American diplomats to leave, an order the United States said it would ignore.Another failed coup.
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Opinion
The Insulin Wars
How insurance companies farm out their dirty work to doctors and patients.This short term strategy will be ended.
Regulation is absolutely necessary.
Preventable death is not an acceptable limit on profit.
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World
Venezuela’s Military Backs Maduro, as Russia Warns U.S. Not to Intervene
The declaration of loyalty to President Nicolás Maduro was a setback for the Venezuelan opposition leader, who has been backed by several countries, including the United States.The oil wars continue.
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U.S.
‘We Didn’t Get Ph.D.s Just to Sit Around’: Civil Servants’ Good Will Erodes
As the shutdown slogs on, scientists, engineers and other high-skilled civil servants are starting to question the appeal of government work.The Deep State is stiring.
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Opinion
A Republican Challenge to Trump?
Larry Hogan can offer a serious and meaningful alternative to the corroded conservatism we have in Washington today.The Tea party is waiting.
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New York
The $238 Million Penthouse, and the Hedge Fund Billionaire Who May Rarely Live There
Kenneth C. Griffin, one of the richest people in the world, paid a record $238 million for a penthouse, heightening the debate about income inequality.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has proposed a wealth tax.
It is something that would help.
Perhaps it could be passed after the next presidential election.
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Business
These Days, ‘You Practically Need a Ph.D.’ to Figure Out Frequent-Flier Status
Airlines’ most valuable customers — the ones who fly and spend the most — get lots of perks. For everyone else, it has become more complicated to qualify.Accountancy is enough.
Pay the fees if the game is not the point.
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New York
Cuomo’s Blunt Subway Strategy: Humiliate the M.T.A. to Force Change
The mass transit system needs higher fares to shore up its finances. But Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo opposes the increase.The State of New York owns the M.T.A.
Cuomo and the legislature control the subsidies.
They must own the higher fares or the higher subsidy or both.
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Magazine
A Private Investigator Wanted to Prove His Clients Innocent. Will His Methods Be His Own Undoing?
In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past made high-profile cases fall apart by insisting that the ends justified his means.Who's ends is a key question.
The Japanese are quoted:
"What pokes up gets hammered down"
"Noir" does not tell sucess stories.
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Opinion
My Life After a Heart Attack at 38
In an instant, I didn’t know if I’d get to see my daughter turn 6.It reads like PTSD
with the exception of the claimed recovery.
Combat Fatigue and Shell Shock must be subtly different.
Repetition may be the explanation.
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U.S.
Fuller Picture Emerges of Viral Video of Native American Man and Catholic Students
A convergence of racial and religious groups set the stage for the viral moment. “I stepped in between to pray,” Nathan Phillips said on Sunday.I was not there.
I do not read minds.
Mob Rule is failure.
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New York
El Chapo Trial: The Kingpin’s Mistress Tells All
Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López met El Chapo when she was 21 years old. Her affair with the kingpin ended in heartbreak.Joaquín Guzmán Loera is a bad person.
Put him in prison with a view of the world.
He should know without the power to control.
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Technology
The Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting Into Class
Student demand for computer science courses is outstripping the supply of professors, creating a student divide of computing haves and have-nots."The words do not mean what they think those words mean."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
An indication is the slow growth of Computer Science Doctorates.
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Food
The Fish You Really Should Be Cooking
A whole one. Yes, with the bones. Alison Roman talks you through it.https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019932-whole-fish-with-soy-and-citrus
Certainly.
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Arts
Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies?
In many Oscar bait movies, interracial friendships come with a paycheck, and follow the white character’s journey to enlightenment.Producers are followers of fashion.
Writers like working.
Directors and actors like cudos.
The Academy wants to be politically correct.
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Opinion
Roe v. Wade Is at Risk. Here’s How to Prepare.
Abortion rights are under threat from the Supreme Court. But states can take critical actions.Separation of church and state must be the law of the land.
Abortion must not be arbitrarily restricted.
It is a woman's right.
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U.S.
Aviation Professionals Warn of Dire Risk Amid Shutdown
In a joint statement, the unions that represent the nation’s air traffic controllers, pilots and flight attendants said the threat to safety was growing by the day.They are correct.
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Opinion
Marie Kondo and the Life-Changing Magic of Japanese Soft Power
The tidying guru is heir to a long tradition: Japan marketing itself as spiritual foil to a soulless West.Some Japanese make a virtue of necessity.
Japan has spent centuries in extreme regimented poverty.
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Opinion
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Tax Hike Idea Is Not About Soaking the Rich
It’s about curtailing inequality and saving democracy.Yes. Good.
Better:
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-warren-unveils-proposal-to-tax-wealth-of-ultra-rich-americans
Paul Krugman Retweeted
Arts
The Horrors of Auschwitz at a Museum in New York
With “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.,” the Museum of Jewish Heritage will devote much of its building to artifacts from that Nazi death camp.Do what works.
The world must know the horrors of Auschwitz.
The causes, banality, willing acceptance, and the failure of suffering to provide moral authority to the victims.
Pain only hurts.
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