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In Louisiana Runoff Election, Senator Landrieu Tries to Revive Her Base
Senator Mary L. Landrieu, seeking a fourth term, faces a tough battle to rally her African-American supporters in a state where voters seem to be favoring Republicans.
Opinion
Democrats Against Reform
No, Obamacare wasn’t a mistake. Democrats should be celebrating that they did the right thing.
Books
The 10 Best Books of 2014
The year’s best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
Opinion
We Must Stop Police Abuse of Black Men
When I joined the police department, I learned the culture of brutality.
Opinion
A Deficit of Dignity
Obama has been insulted, lectured, yelled at and disrespected in public, by public figures, in a way that few if any American presidents have faced.
Opinion
Why Elders Smile
Why do studies suggest that the happiest age group is people ages 82 to 85?
Opinion
It Wasn’t Just the Chokehold
Eric Garner was the victim of bad policies and bad policing that ignored basics, like the anatomy of how people breathe.
N.Y. / Region
Protesters Fill Streets Across U.S. Over Decision in Garner Case
In New York, Boston and Washington, crowds massed to call attention to the killings of unarmed African-Americans by white police officers.
U.S.
Rolling Stone Cites Doubts on Its Story of UVA Rape
The magazine acknowledged “discrepancies” in an article that described a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity.
Business Day
Big Job Gains and Rising Pay in Labor Data
The gain was the largest monthly jump in payrolls in nearly three years, and average hourly earnings surged 0.4 percent, twice what analysts expected.
Arts
Smooth Flight to Neverland, Mostly. Just Ask @tinkerbell.
The biggest challenge for the NBC musical “Peter Pan Live!” was contending with the outsize expectations set up by the network’s barrage of publicity.
Movies
Losing Her Bearings in Familiar Places
In “Still Alice,” Julianne Moore plays a Columbia linguistics professor who receives a devastating diagnosis.
Business Day
Staff at The New Republic Follows Editor Out the Door
A large portion of The New Republic’s staff quit after the departure of the editor, Franklin Foer, who had bristled at the appointment of a new chief executive, Guy Vidra.
Books
100 Notable Books of 2014
The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
Movies
Walking With Solitude, and Her Baggage
“Wild” stars Reese Witherspoon as a woman who takes on an arduous solo trek along the Pacific Crest Trail.
Opinion
A Depression-Fighting Strategy That Could Go Viral
In countries where mental health care is non-existent, effective counseling provided by peers has the potential to self-replicate.
Opinion
Wheat People vs. Rice People
Some cultures are more individualistic, and others more interdependent. Agriculture may explain why.
Run to Stay Young
Running may reverse aging in certain ways, a noteworthy new study of active older people finds, while walking does not.
Business Day
Starbucks, Facing a Saturated Market, Looks to the High End
Starbucks is planning a chain that will sell high-end coffee from around the world, and its branding will be steps removed from its mass-market cousin.
U.S.
New Twist in Lynch’s Confirmation After New York Grand Jury Decision
Loretta E. Lynch will be heading a federal investigation into the death of Eric Garner as the new Republican-controlled Senate decides whether to confirm her as attorney general.
