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Book Review: ‘The Black Shield,’ by Wilbert L. Cooper

In an evocative new memoir, the journalist Wilbert L. Cooper explores the history, and paradoxes, of race and policing in Cleveland, his hometown.

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A forgotten 1992 theory predicted black holes would appear early in our universe's history. Then the Webb telescope found exactly that

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Leszek Kolakowski, canonized in Poland, remains a stranger in Oxford, Berkeley, and Montreal, the places that sheltered him

Leszek Kolakowski, canonized in Poland, remains a stranger in Oxford, Berkeley, and Montreal, the places that sheltered him

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