How Putin Played the West | NYT Opinion

Vladimir Putin, especially these days, is widely reviled. To some he’s a war criminal, to others he’s a dictator, and to many he’s simply a very bad man. But it wasn’t always this way. We trawled through video footage from 20 years of international summits, speeches and news conferences and discovered a man who once basked in high regard: the...

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Watch Jessie Buckley Take a Haunting Tunnel Walk in ‘Men’ | Anatomy of a Scene

If you were walking alone in the woods and came across an abandoned railway tunnel, would you walk in? In Alex Garland’s psychological horror movie, “Men,” there’s an obvious answer. The film (now in theaters) stars Jessie Buckley as Harper, a woman who has escaped to a retreat in the English countryside to process the recent death of her husband....

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I'm a College Student with a Disability. Stop Treating Me Like a Child. | Op-Docs

With audio description, English and Spanish subtitles. Learn more about the film and listen to the audio description pre-show: https://likerightnowfilms.com/productions/details/3356/My-Disability-Roadmap Samuel Habib, 21, wants to date, leave home, go away to college. But for Samuel and millions of other young adults with disabilities, the path beyond...

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I'm a College Student with a Disability. Stop Treating Me Like a Child. | Op-Doc

(With audio description, English and Spanish subtitles.) Samuel Habib, 21, wants to date, leave home, go away to college. But for Samuel and millions of other young adults with disabilities, the path beyond public school and into adulthood is difficult to navigate. Samuel lives with a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a mutation in a...

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How Russia Is Destroying Ukraine’s Health Care System | NYT Opinion

On Feb. 24, the first day of the war in Ukraine, a Russian attack on a hospital in the eastern city of Vuhledar killed four people and wounded 10 others. The next day, elsewhere in Ukraine, a cancer center and a children’s hospital were hit. And the attacks on the nation’s health care infrastructure kept coming, at a rate of at least two a day, by...

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Have You Considered the Benefits of Crying? | Op-Docs

It’s safe to say we all have more to cry about. Gone, for the most part, are the days when shedding tears around other people was derided as inappropriate or embarrassing: Even leaders are crying in public. And that’s OK: Crying can be really, really good for you. And that’s the message that Hidefumi Yoshida, a self-described tears teacher, is out...

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Watch Alexander Skarsgard Battle the Undead in ‘The Northman’ | Anatomy of a Scene

A quiet moonlit scene turns into a rousing fierce fight with an undead mound dweller in this scene from “The Northman.” Amleth (Alexander Skarsgard), the Northman of the title, is seeking to avenge his father’s death. But he requires a special sword that he must retrieve from a burial mound. He’ll just need to pry the weapon from the hands of the...

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Teens Are In Crisis. Here’s Why. | The New York Times

Why are so many American teenagers feeling anxious, depressed and even suicidal? Our video looks at the science behind the teen mental health crisis. Warning: This video contains discussions of suicidal thoughts and self-harm. If you are having thoughts of suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com....

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How Nicolas Cage Parodies Himself in ‘Massive Talent’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Nicolas Cage gets his acting mojo back in this scene from the meta action comedy “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.” Here, Cage, who plays the fictionalized version of himself named Nick Cage, is spending time with a superfan, Javi (Pedro Pascal). Javi has paid Nick to be his guest for his birthday. Reduced to taking such gigs instead of parts...

Apr 2022

Under Attack in Ukraine’s Southeast | Russia-Ukraine War

Our cameras captured life on the front lines in southeast Ukraine, where Russian shelling is relentless and it feels like the war is inching closer every day. Read the story here: https://nyti.ms/3KS8iFf Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts...

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