11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

Welcome to the weekend. Another round of Democratic debates is behind us, the trade war is heating up again and ASAP Rocky got some help from a hostage negotiator. Here are some other stories you might have missed in this busy news week.

Dying gasp of one local newspaper

The Warroad Pioneer, a pillar of its small Minnesota town, ended its 121-year run with bloody marys, bold type and gloom about the void it would leave behind.

[Also read: “A Future Without the Front Page” and “A Paradox at the Heart of the Newspaper Crisis.”]

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An American middle schooler, orphaned by deportation

Fanny was in middle school when ICE came for her mother, leaving her to navigate the struggles of adolescence by herself.

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From Opinion: The nuns who bought and sold human beings

America’s nuns are beginning to confront their complicity in slavery, but it’s still a long road to repentance.

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The secret to having the best summer ever

In Missouri, it’s friendship and roller skates.

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Will the millennials save Playboy?

The Hefners are gone, and so is the magazine’s short-lived ban on nudity — as well as virtually anyone on the staff over 35.

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A recession is coming (eventually). Here’s where you’ll see it first.

Economists don’t know when the decade-long expansion, now the longest in American history, will end. But here are the indicators they will be watching to figure it out.

[Also read: “Pride Flags and Rate Cuts: Fed Loosens Up to Connect With Average Workers.”]

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Hal Prince, giant of Broadway and reaper of Tonys, dies at 91

Mr. Prince helped bring to life a stunning lineup of shows: “Cabaret,” “Sweeney Todd,” and Broadway’s longest-running spectacle, “The Phantom of the Opera.”

[Also read ”Remembering Hal Prince: 12 Broadway Luminaries Share Their Stories.”]

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He was the face of a bike-a-thon to fight cancer. He was also a fake.

After John Looker announced he had brain cancer, he became a star fund-raiser and the heart of Pelotonia, a charity event in Ohio that raises millions of dollars. But something wasn’t right.

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If these walls could talk: A war correspondent revisits a hotel of ghosts

The Liwan — where journalists such as Anthony Shadid often stayed — once hummed with Syria’s hopes and fears.

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Sleater-Kinney asked St. Vincent for a creative spark. The trio blew up.

After two and a half decades, the acclaimed band ventures into a different sound on its ninth album, “The Center Won’t Hold” — and moves onward without its longtime drummer.

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Are you rich? This income-rank quiz might change how you see yourself

Answer these five questions to get a better sense of where your expectations meet reality.

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