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Behind the Birth of an Anti-Vaccine Story

Before he received his second shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, there was little reason to think that George Watts Jr.…

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In Los Angeles, the ‘Coroner to the Stars’ Has the Last Word

There is no medical examiner’s office in the world like the one in Los Angeles County, where investigations of sudden…

Health

An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy for Men

The News The gap in life expectancy between men and women in the United States grew to its widest in…

Health

How Aid in Dying Became Medical, Not Moral

The debate over aid in dying still rages in the language that medicine and the media use to describe the…

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Khaled Khalifa, Syrian Novelist ‘Exiled at Home,’ Is Dead at 59

His books, laced with humor and often banned in his country, chronicle centuries of strife in the Middle East, earning…

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How a Young Activist’s Murder Has Been Gleefully Distorted Online

Because Ryan Carson was a liberal activist, social media trolls blamed his own politics for his death.

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This Above All: My Undying Obsession With ‘Hamlet’

For one critic, every encounter with this Shakespeare play deepens her understanding of its insights into grief, family and gender.

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Monitor Condemns Rikers Violence as 9th Person Dies in Custody This Year

A scathing report about the troubled Rikers Island jail complex and another death there come as New York City faces…

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Some Key Facts About Fentanyl

It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics.

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Why Is America Such a Deadly Place?

Death is excessive in America, and the more you look the more distressing the picture seems. You’ve probably heard about…

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