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Unwed Mothers and Their Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia
A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats and police officers turned the mothers away.
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As the Russia War Continues, Ukraine Faces a Major Draft Evasion Problem
Ukraine faces a major draft-evasion problem, but no place is quite like Vylkove, a Danube River town where men of draft age have all but vanished, many of them trying to avoid military service.
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Syria’s President Meets Trump at White House for First Time
The visit by President Ahmed al-Shara is another step in the transformation of the former rebel leader once wanted by the United States as a terrorist.
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Syria al-Shara al-Baghdadi Trump
In 2019, President Trump sent U.S. commandos to a small village in Syria to kill the leader of the Islamic State. On Monday, Syria’s president, a former associate of that leader, will take another step to strengthen his alliance with the White House.
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Why the BBC Is Facing Its Gravest Crisis in Decades
The British public service broadcaster apologized on Monday for a misleadingly edited documentary about President Trump. But the scandal had already claimed two of its top executives.
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Robert A.M. Stern Is Still Dreaming of a Fresh New York
The sharp-tongued architect and professor built Manhattan’s most luxurious towers, but his new book shuttles from Billionaires’ Row to the Bronx. (Plus, what he thinks of Rem and Zaha.)
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Is This Artist the Joe Rogan of the Art World?
Joshua Citarella, the artist behind the podcast “Doomscroll” and the digital project Do Not Research, explains how online subcultures influence today’s politics.
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Tokyo Film Festival 2025: Journey into Sato Tadao
Before I sat down to watch the documentary about him, I had only heard the name Sato Tadao once. It was in an article by Roger Ebert, a piece about Yasujiro Ozu’s rise in popularity in the West, in which Ebert referred to Tadao as a “veteran Japanese critic” whom he had met while on…
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Siskel & Ebert at the Movies Celebrates its 50th Anniversary
Half a century ago, a low budget Chicago public television station invited the film critics from the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune to talk about the movies opening each week. Producer Thea Flaum invited Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel to host what was originally called “Opening Soon at a Theatre Near You.” When Siskel…
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HBO’s “The Seduction” Surprises without Sizzle
Playing in the same world as “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988), “Cruel Intentions” (1999), and the original 1782 French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, HBO’s “The Seduction” is about a woman who’s manipulated out of her innocence and develops an insatiable craving for manipulation. Directed by Jessica Palud, created and co-written by Jean-Baptiste…