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Healthy Job Growth Seen in Last Snapshot Before Election

  • Employers added 161,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.9 percent, suggesting a healthy outlook for the months ahead.
  • Average hourly earnings rose 2.8 percent year over year, a level not reached since 2008.


Voters Express Disgust Over State of Politics, Poll Shows

Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are seen by a majority of voters as unlikely to bring the country back together after a bitter election season, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll.



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The National Mall. Credit Tomás Munita for The New York Times

An American in a Strange Land

After more than a decade away, a foreign correspondent comes back to take stock of his divided homeland.

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A U-Turn From Isolation to Intimacy

When her only child outgrows cuddling, a single mother realizes that her daily life is almost entirely without physical affection, or even touch, from anyone.

Megyn Kelly: By the Book

The Fox News anchor and author of “Settle for More” says “Bridget Jones’s Diary” reads “like my own journals from pretty much every phase of my life and made me laugh so hard I cried.”

Where Did My Supermarket Go?

Corner markets and grocery stores are closing across the city, changing the tenor of a neighborhood and forcing some to rethink their daily routines.

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Behind Our Anxiety

The problem is not a lack of material riches. It is the growing number of people who feel superfluous.

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The Walls in Our Heads

The idea that we can solve problems by building physical barriers is a persistent human fantasy.

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