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The Met’s Exhibit on Black Male Style Is an Exceptional Achievement
Writing in this magazine in 1973, Kennedy Fraser referred to style as “individualistic, aristocratic, and reckless,” and one or all of…
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David Hockney’s “Going Up Garrowby Hill”
There are many ways to celebrate spring, but few contemporary artists have devoted more attention to the topic than David Hockney. The…
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How Margaret Fuller Set Minds on Fire
In the four and a half decades since its founding, the Library of America has issued not only the pillars of our national literature but…
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Commentary: Yelling, finger-pointing and cursing galore as California Democrats gather near Disneyland
It’s not easy being a Democrat in these Trumpian times, as each day brings fresh tales of conquest and pillage. Still, despite all that,…
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Small Farmers Are Struggling With Trumpian Chaos—and Bracing for More
But Erin Foster West, policy director at the National Young Farmers Coalition, said that programs intended to help commodity farmers have…
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Trump’s Out-of-Control Debt Is Not a Bug. To the GOP, It’s a Feature.
But generally speaking, it’s been Republican presidents who’ve piled up the debt. And it’s not very close. Reagan’s percentage was 160.8;…
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Singapore shares fall after Trump vows to double steel tariffs; STI down 0.1%
Shares on the Singapore bourse ended lower on Monday (Jun 2), after US President Donald Trump said last week that he would double tariffs…
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Sanofi to buy US biopharma group Blueprint for up to US$9.5 billion
France’s Sanofi has agreed to buy US-based Blueprint Medicines Corporation for up to US$9.5 billion to boost its position in rare…
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Video: Inside Trump’s Attack on Harvard
The battle between Harvard University and the Trump administration has continued to escalate. Michael C. Bender, a correspondent for The…
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DBS, UOB, OCBC return surplus capital with over S$700 million of buybacks
In the first five months of 2025, 63 primary-listed Singapore companies conducted share buybacks through open market acquisitions,…
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Tesla not keen on local production in India, minister says
Tesla does not want to produce cars in India, a federal minister said on Monday (Jun 2) as the government finalised its electric vehicle…
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Thailand’s virtual bank race heats up
Thailand’s finance ministry is set to issue three virtual banking licences by mid-June – a move that could jolt the country’s lucrative…
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Cybersecurity firm Goldilock invests S$1.2 million, opens regional HQ in Singapore
It will hire five engineers here within the first 18 months of opening, and about 20 people over the coming three years Cybersecurity…
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Azeus Systems shares surge 16.6% as earnings, dividends double
Shares of Azeus Systems jumped as much as 16.6 per cent on Monday (Jun 2), after the company reported a surge in net profits. The counter…
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DBS mobile app customers face intermittent access on Monday; bank says issue resolved
More than 1,000 reports have been made on outage tracking site Downdetector since around 2 pm DBS and POSB customers had difficulties…
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‘Our own doing’: California Democrats try to figure out how to win national elections again
In the aftermath of Democrats’ widespread electoral failures last year, party activists in California who gathered for their annual…
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The Way Forward for Religious Charter Schools After <em>St. Isidore</em>
Recent disappointment at the Supreme Court doesn’t mean the fight against prohibiting religious-sponsored charter schools should go away.…
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The Commencement Address Harvard Needs
The university doesn’t need self-referential self-congratulation. It needs introspection of the sort Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once urged of…
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There's one bright spot for San Francisco's office space market
SAN FRANCISCO — In recent years, San Francisco’s image as a welcoming place for businesses has taken a hit. Major tech companies such as…
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Jarvis Cocker Is Out of the Rain
This month, the beloved British pop band Pulp will release “More,” its first new album in twenty-four years. Jarvis Cocker, the band’s…
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Travel disruptions fueled by Trump policies may culminate at peak summer season
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration invited travel industry executives to the White House in May for a meeting on federal plans for the…
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Column: Was Le Slap a love tap or an assault? France's first couple offer a distraction from bad news
Not that you asked, but yes, I have been feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the bad news out of Washington: Pardons for tax cheats who line…
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Moms are trying to delay daughters' first period—experts say they're right
Puberty in American girls is starting earlier than ever—and some moms aren't waiting around to see what that means for their daughters.…
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S-Reits with Singapore office assets post resilient Q1 2025 amid positive rent reversions and high occupancy
Singapore-listed office real estate investment trusts (S-Reits) reported a broadly resilient performance in the first quarter of 2025,…