Review: Ibsen’s ‘Enemy of the People,’ Starring Jeremy Strong
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Review: Ibsen’s ‘Enemy of the People,’ Starring Jeremy Strong

Dissent is necessary to democracy, sure. But how much does it cost? That’s the fundamental question posed by Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” — and, in highly dramatic fashion, by the preview I attended of its latest Broadway revival. At that performance, on Thursday, just as the play…

Opinion | The Internet Is a Wasteland, So Give Kids Better Places to Go
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Opinion | The Internet Is a Wasteland, So Give Kids Better Places to Go

Female adolescence was nightmarish enough before smartphones, but apps like Instagram and TikTok have put popularity contests and unrealistic beauty standards into hyperdrive. (Boys, by contrast, have more problems linked to overuse of video games and porn.) The studies Haidt cites — as well as the ones he debunks —…

Serbian Leader Says Kushner Deal Is Not an Effort to Influence Trump
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Serbian Leader Says Kushner Deal Is Not an Effort to Influence Trump

The president of Serbia on Monday batted away any suggestion that he might have intentionally tried to steer a valuable real estate project in Serbia’s capital to Jared Kushner, Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law, in an effort to influence Mr. Trump should he return to the White House. “I died laughing,”…

Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Tries to Raise $454 Million Bond in Fraud Case
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Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Tries to Raise $454 Million Bond in Fraud Case

Donald J. Trump’s lawyers disclosed on Monday that he had failed to secure a roughly half-billion dollar bond in his civil fraud case in New York, raising the prospect that the state could seek to freeze some of his bank accounts and seize some of his marquee properties. The court…

Israel’s Military Raids Gaza Hospital, Saying Hamas Regrouped There
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Israel’s Military Raids Gaza Hospital, Saying Hamas Regrouped There

Experts project that northern Gaza will face famine conditions as soon as this month, and that half of the enclave’s population will suffer deadly levels of hunger, according to a new report from the global authority that has classified food security crises for decades. The report, released Monday by the…