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My Father’s Musical Legacy

For my 16th birthday in 1985, when all 12 of my older siblings had left home, my father made me a tape of himself performing two songs. The first was an old standard which he sang and played on the piano he and my mother had purchased 40 years earlier, even before buying a bed.…

New York City Is Ending a Ban on Gay Conversion Therapy. Here’s Why.

Nearly two years ago, the New York City Council celebrated when it passed a far-reaching ban on conversion therapy, a discredited practice to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. On Thursday, Corey Johnson, the Council speaker, who is gay, said the Council would act swiftly to repeal the ban. The move is a…

At a Maternity Center Near a War Zone, 20 Births in One Day

ANABAH, Afghanistan — He was a few minutes old; a fussy, wriggling baby in a heated bassinet. He let out a squawk when a neonatal nurse plunged a vitamin K injection into his thigh. The six-pound boy — the nurses called him Aqila, his mother’s name — was the 20th baby delivered over the course…

A Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes Would Sharply Cut Sales

A ban on flavored e-cigarettes would not only severely dent sales of Juul Labs’ popular vaping products, but also have a chilling effect on the little regulated $2.6 billion industry of roughly 20,000 vape and smoke shops that sprung up across the country in the past few years. But a day after Alex M. Azar…