Opinion
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Biden’s Approval Is Low, Except Compared With Everyone Else’s
Q. What do you call someone who speaks only one language? A. An American. It’s an old joke, but it…
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Want to fix Social Security? The Well-Off Must Accept Smaller Checks.
Eleven years. That’s all that’s left until the combined Social Security accounts — the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund…
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Does Mindfulness Training Lead to Better Mental Health?
More from our inbox: Teaching About HateIsrael and Hamas: Let the I.C.C. DecideNonpartisan House SpeakersLucy Foulkes, a research psychologist at…
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What Trump Could Do in Foreign Policy Might Surprise the World
Love it or hate it, the United States has an imperial presidency, and in his first term, Donald Trump demonstrated…
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It’s Not Your Imagination. Your Allergies Are Getting Worse.
It’s spring, and I love spring more than I love almost anything else about the natural world, but I don’t…
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Hold Onto Your Hats, America
Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. It’s commencement season, though at least a few ceremonies are being canceled on account of all…
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Doctors, Not Judges, Should Decide When to Treat Patients Without Their Consent
Not long ago, I took care of a middle-aged man at my hospital who had severe heart failure requiring life…
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Electricity Demand Is Surging. Let’s Not Fry the Planet in Response.
Electric utilities from Georgia to Wisconsin to Virginia are predicting a dizzying surge in power demand from new industrial facilities,…
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What I Am Listening for in Michael Cohen’s Testimony
For the final stage of the prosecutor’s case in the People of the State of New York v. Donald Trump,…
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No, Donald Trump, Biden’s Economy Is Not Like Weimar Germany’s
At a May 1 rally in Waukesha, Wis., Donald Trump said that when he was president “we had no inflation,”…