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Narges Mohammadi Transferred to Tehran Hospital

BEIRUT — Nobel Peace laureate and activist Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a Tehran hospital more than a week after collapsing in prison, her foundation

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Savvy shoppers turn to discount grocers to cut food costs

When Rachel Negro-Henderson began shopping regularly at Aldi during the pandemic after her husband lost his coaching job, she sometimes felt self-conscious running into acquaintances at the store. That discomfort has faded.

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Happy Mother's Day to My Unfailingly Kind Mother

Bertha Ngumbi, my sweet mother, is one of the kindest women I know. But when I was a kid growing up in Kenya with four siblings, her kindness annoyed me. My siblings — three sisters and one brother

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M.I.A.: What Counts as Radical Today?

In an 1838 journal entry Ralph Waldo Emerson warned against mistaking contradiction for persecution: "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." Two centuries later, that error feels endemic to social media and celebrity culture — and it...