Before the law, which Trump has said he would repeal, health insurance was cheaper for a few, but outright unattainable for many.
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Zadie Smith on Male Critics, Appropriation, and What Interests Her Novelistically About Trump
A wide-ranging conversation.
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What Obama Got Right
The outgoing president has resolved old problems and avoided new ones.
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‘Very real risk’ of South Sudan atrocities, UN secretary general warns
Ban Ki-moon claims UN peacekeepers currently deployed in South Sudan would not be capable of preventing mass killings.
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From Flint with Love, Art of the African Diaspora
SUMMIT, NJ — Unlike many notable private art collections that serve the public good only after they have been donated to a museum (or turned into museums of their own), the Mott-Warsh Collection was conceived to fulfill a larger social purpose.
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When Banking Black Was Not Enough, This Woman Took an Extraordinary Extra Step to Help Black-Owned Businesses
You could call it a hidden-camera show, but that’s not exactly what it is. It’s so much more than that.
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On Colin Kaepernick’s Decision Not to Vote
Colin Kaepernick is facing backlash for refusing to vote in this election, but he was hardly alone.
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Festival promotes African-American classical works
More than a century ago, a small cohort of African-American classical music lovers desperately wanted to hear a touring group from the Metropolitan Opera sing during a rare Atlanta performance. As the story goes, the group considered dressing up as servants to slip into the segregated concert.
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Gwen Ifill, Journalist and Debate Moderator, Dies at 61
Gwen Ifill, an award-winning television journalist for NBC and PBS, former reporter for The New York Times and author who moderated vice-presidential debates in 2004 and 2008, died on Monday in Washington. She was 61.
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The Fate of the Undocumented Teachers for America
The nearly 150 educators who secured legal employment through DACA wonder if Donald Trump will end their time in the classroom.
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