A book and hit movie depicted Michael Oher as a Black kid saved by adoptive white parents. Oher says that’s not the real story.
Books, Culture & the Arts
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Demanding Equity in Higher Education
A new documentary, ‘The Five Demands,’ explores the 1969 student campus takeover that reshaped college education in New York.
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A Hemmed-In Presidency
In ‘The Last Politician,’ Franklin Foer unfolds Joe Biden’s record of achievement and command. But voters haven’t gotten to see it.
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Language Barriers Complicate the Geography of News Deserts
Lack of access to local bilingual news isolates people who speak little or no English.
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Clinton’s Backwash
To make sense of Ron DeSantis, who trolls a liberal elite that has not faced its own failures, a former teammate reflects on their time playing baseball at Yale in the 1990s.
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What Might Finally Resolve the Hollywood Strikes
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention.
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A Slow Turn in Hip-Hop Redemption for Black Women
The sentencing of rapper Tory Lanez for shooting Megan Thee Stallion highlights decades of injustice.
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Top Ten Things I’d Give Up for Free Health Care
Let’s make this trade.
