Last week was Banned Books Week, a time to spotlight censorship and attempts across the country to take books off library shelves.
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9/29/22
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I implore readers to watch the new six-hour, three-part series on PBS, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein.
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9/29/22
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"The pandemic is over.” With those words last weekend, President Biden declared . . .
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9/22/22
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Most New Yorkers want the same thing: a safe, affordable place to raise a family, one where our children can play outside without worry.
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By Christopher Carini
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2/3/22
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I hate to even appear to disagree with the pope, but not everyone wants to have children these days.
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2/3/22
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The war on local school boards, teaching and history is escalating as conservative activists and Republican politicians prepare for the 2022 congressional midterm elections.
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By Alan Singer
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12/23/21
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Birds have fascinated me since I was a boy growing up in Yaphank, in Suffolk County, in the 1970s. My parents spread birdfeed on our slate-covered cement patio in winter . . .
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7/1/21
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America has been fertile ground for conspiracy theories. Some social scientists say that the conspiracy world began to flourish with the Kennedy assassination in 1963.
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3/11/21
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If time is really relative and there are time travelers out there from the future thinking about where to visit, do not, I repeat, do not go back to 2020.
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2/4/21
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By the time you read this, the 2020 presidential election will either be over or not. There will be a clear winner, or there won’t.
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11/5/20
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