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If nothing else, Elizabeth Lewinsohn’s failed bid for a New York City Council seat highlights two great needs: housing and idealistic candidates.

Adelita Grijalva remains heavily favored to win the House seat of her late father, Raúl Grijalva, but youthful challengers and tired voters are asking why change is so hard for Democrats.

The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger question is whether it matters.

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Reporters for The New York Times spent a day in Sri Ganganagar, the country’s hottest region, to see how residents were coping. Elsewhere: Extreme heat is stifling Europe, too.