11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/29/arts/11-of-our-best-weekend-reads.html

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Welcome to the weekend. It’s the last one this year. Are you ready for the new year? Writing resolutions? Whether you are partying like it’s already 2019 or quietly greeting a new trip around the sun, make time for some fabulous journalism. And happy New Year!

Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive.

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Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.

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The island has shaped the “Hamilton” creator’s identity. Now he’s bringing the musical to San Juan, and things are getting complicated.

[Also read: “Barack Obama Joins Lin-Manuel Miranda on a ‘Hamilton’ Remix”]

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How states are extending liberties to the unborn — by taking them from women.

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The Trump administration went after gang members — and instead destroyed the American dreams of immigrant teenagers around the country.

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In just two years, Mr. Trump has unleashed a regulatory rollback with little parallel in the past half-century.

[Also read: “78 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump”]

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A strange journey to a factory where the sparkly stuff is made.

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Some worry that the city is in danger of becoming a dump. Not a “rubbish heap of history,” or a precious junkyard of antiquities, but an actual garbage dump.

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Dr. Larry Braunstein rented his office from the Trumps. Relatives say he was central to a diagnosis that got the 22-year-old Mr. Trump a medical exemption.

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Residents of the town, which was nearly wiped out by the Camp Fire in November, are coming to terms with what’s left.

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Across the country, legions of former employees gather regularly to celebrate a bygone era of retailing.