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David Thomas, Who Led the ‘Avant-Garage’ Band Pere Ubu, Dies at 71

admin27 April 2025

David Thomas, the singer and songwriter who led Pere Ubu and other bands that stretched the parameters of punk and art-rock, died on Wednesday in Brighton and Hove, England. He was 71. Mr. Thomas had suffered from kidney disease, but the announcement ...

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Jed the Fish, Quirky Pioneer of Los Angeles Radio, Dies at 69

admin27 April 2025

With his off-kilter sensibility and deep musical grounding, he brought attention to New Wave and alternative artists at the groundbreaking station KROQ.

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Trump Doesn’t Want to Govern

admin27 April 2025

I think it’s obvious that neither President Trump nor his coterie of agents and apparatchiks has any practical interest in governing the nation. It’s one reason (among many) they are so eager to destroy the federal bureaucracy; in their minds, you ...

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Why We Let Fads Dictate What We Eat

admin27 April 2025

For a few weeks last fall, I was eating a deflated rectangle made of cottage cheese, eggs and shredded Cheddar every day for lunch. When this unholy concoction first came out of the oven, it would seem so fluffy and filled with promise; warm and ...

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Who Has to Get Rid of Radon: Me or My HOA?

admin27 April 2025

It likely depends on your governing documents. But the homeowners’ association either has to solve the problem, or let you solve it.

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Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex-Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41

admin27 April 2025

She accused Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, of recruiting her to join their predatory ring and sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault.

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Trump’s Vicious Sewing Circle

admin27 April 2025

I was already feeling queasy about the Trump administration when I saw that the Agriculture Department was withdrawing a Biden-era proposal meant to reduce salmonella in poultry. So besides making us jittery — and “yippy” — the Trump gang is trying ...

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American Values Are Threatened by the American President

admin27 April 2025

As the Trump administration disappears immigrants into foreign prisons and sees this as a source of American strength, I think back to when my dad was disappeared, why he came to America and, indeed, why I exist. My dad’s journey through war and ...

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America’s Tough Guy in Chief Is Making America Weak

admin27 April 2025

Provoking your enemies, alienating your friends and actively sabotaging your own defenses is no one’s idea of a sound national security plan. And yet, this is the playbook that President Trump has apparently followed over the first 100 days of his ...

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Thoughts on Better Thinking

admin27 April 2025

Readers on reading: Responses to David Brooks’s column about the state of literacy in America.

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