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New York Times (May 2024)
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  The Book Review’s Best Books Since 2000
  
  
5838 points • may 01, 2024
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  The Best Sex Advice Might Also Be the Hardest to Follow
  
  
5138 points • may 21, 2024
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  He Thought He Had Bought a Great Apartment. The Ceiling Held a Secret.
  
  
4236 points • may 10, 2024
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  The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel
  
  
4190 points • may 16, 2024
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  Italian Teenager to Become the First Millennial Saint
  
  
4148 points • may 24, 2024
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  Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness
  
  
3955 points • may 07, 2024
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  The Best Films of 2024, So Far
  
  
3924 points • may 25, 2024
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  She Just Earned Her Doctorate at 17. Now, She’ll Go to the Prom.
  
  
3485 points • may 23, 2024
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  This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity
  
  
3454 points • may 01, 2024
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  She Had Been Coughing for Two Years. The Cause Was a Surprise.
  
  
3417 points • may 16, 2024
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  Cass Elliot’s Death Spawned a Horrible Myth. She Deserves Better.
  
  
3380 points • may 09, 2024
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  How Bad Are Ultraprocessed Foods, Really?
  
  
3292 points • may 06, 2024
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  A Peek Inside the Brains of ‘Super-Agers’
  
  
3230 points • may 01, 2024
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  I Was a Nude Model for a Half Hour. Revelatory? Actually, Yes.
  
  
3120 points • may 25, 2024
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  The One Thing Voters Remember About Trump
  
  
3060 points • may 11, 2024
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  A Shock of Red for a Royal Portrait
  
  
3060 points • may 16, 2024
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  Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, May 25, 2024
  
  
3000 points • may 25, 2024
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  Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?
  
  
2996 points • may 03, 2024
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  There’s a New Covid Variant. What Will That Mean for Spring and Summer?
  
  
2955 points • may 14, 2024
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  12 Departing Lawmakers Tell Us What Congress Is Really Like
  
  
2947 points • may 01, 2024
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  The Loneliness Curve
  
  
2929 points • may 07, 2024
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  How Has Gun Violence Changed in Your Neighborhood?
  
  
2861 points • may 15, 2024
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  Why Gardening Is So Good for You
  
  
2760 points • may 24, 2024
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  Jerry Seinfeld Can No Longer Be About Nothing
  
  
2743 points • may 04, 2024
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  Their Diplomas Came With Envelopes of Cash, and a Catch
  
  
2625 points • may 24, 2024
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  5 Exercises for a Better Sex Life
  
  
2619 points • may 03, 2024
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  Is It Better to Rent or Buy? A Financial Calculator.
  
  
2619 points • may 14, 2024
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  7 Unforgettable Dogs at Westminster
  
  
2573 points • may 16, 2024
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  The Truth Hurts — Especially When Bill Maher Dishes It Out
  
  
2517 points • may 18, 2024
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  Men Fear Me, Society Shames Me, and I Love My Life
  
  
2514 points • may 25, 2024
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  This Common Condition Can Damage Joints Long Before It’s Detected
  
  
2494 points • may 03, 2024
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  Was the 401(k) a Mistake?
  
  
2493 points • may 08, 2024
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  Ali MacGraw on Her Natural, Beautiful Life
  
  
2457 points • may 23, 2024
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  Hillary Clinton Has Some Tough Words for Democrats, and for Women
  
  
2437 points • may 25, 2024
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  Inside Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire
  
  
2369 points • may 18, 2024
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  ‘Chelsea’ Asked for Nude Pictures. Then the Sextortion Began.
  
  
2366 points • may 15, 2024
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  Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows
  
  
2350 points • may 11, 2024
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  The 25 Essential Pasta Dishes to Eat in Italy
  
  
2307 points • may 18, 2024
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  If You Want to Get Stronger, Routine Is the Enemy
  
  
2276 points • may 10, 2024
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  Donnie After Dark
  
  
2264 points • may 11, 2024
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  What Kind of Husband Behaves Like Donald Trump?
  
  
2228 points • may 09, 2024
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  The Rolling Stones Really Might Never Stop
  
  
2225 points • may 25, 2024
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  They Found a Rare Species in the Wild: An Original Bolt-Together House
  
  
2168 points • may 04, 2024
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  The Constant Work to Keep a Family Connected Has a Name
  
  
2161 points • may 09, 2024
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  Alice Stewart, a CNN Political Commentator, Is Dead at 58
  
  
2158 points • may 19, 2024
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  44-Foot Whale Found Dead on Bow of Cruise Ship Coming Into New York
  
  
2150 points • may 09, 2024
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  The Ugly Effect of Physical Insults
  
  
2142 points • may 17, 2024
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  How Big Is Taylor Swift?
  
  
2116 points • may 20, 2024
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  Texas Governor Pardons Man in Fatal Shooting of Protester in 2020
  
  
2093 points • may 16, 2024
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  This Quiz Will Change the Way You Think About Dog Breeding
  
  
2084 points • may 09, 2024
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  Donald Trump Has Never Sounded Like This
  
  
2065 points • may 01, 2024
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  Gayle King Ate a Burger Before Her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Shoot
  
  
2056 points • may 16, 2024
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  One Dead and Dozens Injured After ‘Extreme Turbulence’ on Flight
  
  
2054 points • may 21, 2024
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  The Three Faces of Don
  
  
2041 points • may 04, 2024
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  A Running Mate’s History: $1 Billion, Cocaine, a Fling With Elon Musk
  
  
2029 points • may 22, 2024
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  A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years
  
  
2015 points • may 24, 2024
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  The Unwanted Shelter Dog Who Found His Way to Westminster
  
  
2008 points • may 11, 2024
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  These Couples Survived a Lot. Then Came Retirement.
  
  
1999 points • may 05, 2024
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  Renting Forever and Trying to Create a Strong Financial Future
  
  
1994 points • may 19, 2024
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  After Living Much of Life at Sea, Captain Sandy Finds Love on Land
  
  
1993 points • may 15, 2024
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  It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires
  
  
1972 points • may 04, 2024
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  Marjorie Taylor Greene Has a Decision to Make
  
  
1972 points • may 26, 2024
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  Try Living in Elon Musk’s Company Town
  
  
1970 points • may 25, 2024
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  Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, May 18, 2024
  
  
1968 points • may 18, 2024
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  Frank Stella, Towering Artist and Master of Reinvention, Dies at 87
  
  
1964 points • may 05, 2024
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  The Alitos, the Neighborhood Clash and the Upside-Down Flag
  
  
1958 points • may 29, 2024
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  An 81-Year-Old ‘Serial Slingshot Shooter’ Is Arrested After Decade of Mischief
  
  
1956 points • may 30, 2024
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  A Federal Judge Wonders: How Could Alito Have Been So Foolish?
  
  
1935 points • may 24, 2024
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  The Architect Who Made Singapore’s Public Housing the Envy of the World
  
  
1934 points • may 25, 2024
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  Woman Made Her Home Inside a Grocery Store’s Rooftop Sign, Police Say
  
  
1934 points • may 12, 2024
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  At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display
  
  
1925 points • may 17, 2024
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  How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours
  
  
1924 points • may 04, 2024
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  One Photo That Captures the Loss in Gaza
  
  
1920 points • may 05, 2024
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  Women Have Gotten ‘Too Mouthy,’ Says This Republican Senate Candidate
  
  
1913 points • may 25, 2024
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  ‘Dropping Very Dramatically’: What Deadly Turbulence Did to a Flight
  
  
1912 points • may 22, 2024
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  Trump’s Post-Verdict Playbook: Anger and Retribution, Regardless of the Outcome
  
  
1894 points • may 27, 2024
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  I Was Shot in Vermont. What if It Had Been in the West Bank?
  
  
1876 points • may 17, 2024
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  After 3 Tourists Go Missing, Bodies Are Found in Baja California
  
  
1876 points • may 04, 2024
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  ‘Where Did Justine Go?’ One Woman Disappears Into Devotion
  
  
1868 points • may 22, 2024
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  WABC Cancels Giuliani’s Radio Show Over False Election Claims
  
  
1864 points • may 11, 2024
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  Yahya Sinwar Helped Start the War in Gaza. Now He’s Key to Its Endgame.
  
  
1863 points • may 12, 2024
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  Scanning the Dark Universe, Euclid Finds Scenes of Cosmic Light
  
  
1857 points • may 24, 2024
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  Trump Tells Libertarians to Nominate Him, and Mocks Them When They Boo
  
  
1842 points • may 26, 2024
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  Why the Campus Protests Are So Troubling
  
  
1813 points • may 08, 2024
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  A New Yorker Took Her $400,000 Budget Up to the Hudson Valley. Here’s What She Found.
  
  
1807 points • may 16, 2024
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  Younger Adults Are Missing Early Warning Signs of Colon Cancer
  
  
1806 points • may 27, 2024
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  ‘We’ll See You at Your House’: How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics
  
  
1799 points • may 19, 2024
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  Michael Cohen Was Paid to Fix Trump’s Problems. Now He’s One of Them.
  
  
1798 points • may 12, 2024
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  Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not as Powerful as She Thinks She Is
  
  
1784 points • may 05, 2024
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  Why Do People Make Music?
  
  
1780 points • may 17, 2024
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  Israel and Saudi Arabia Are Trading Places
  
  
1780 points • may 03, 2024
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  Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets
  
  
1775 points • may 29, 2024
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  A City With a Medieval History of Killing Cats Now Celebrates Them
  
  
1754 points • may 20, 2024
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  Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home
  
  
1744 points • may 23, 2024
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  Melinda French Gates: The Enemies of Progress Play Offense. I Want to Help Even the Match.
  
  
1738 points • may 28, 2024
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  The New York Times News Quiz, May 10, 2024
  
  
1736 points • may 10, 2024
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  As Kentucky Derby Nears, Last Year’s Deaths Cast Long Shadow
  
  
1728 points • may 03, 2024
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  Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, May 4, 2024
  
  
1720 points • may 04, 2024
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  President Biden Just Made His Biggest Blunder
  
  
1719 points • may 10, 2024
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  Israel’s Wartime Government Frays as Frustration with Netanyahu Grows
  
  
1714 points • may 19, 2024