Opinion
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What a Dying Lake Says About the Future
A few days ago The Times published a report on the drying up of the Great Salt Lake, a story…
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This Company Knows How to Increase Students’ Test Scores
Some of the world’s most successful educational techniques are being applied today in Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda and India,…
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If Australia Can Stop Mass Shootings, Why Can’t We?
Within hours of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, last month, as President Biden flew home from a trip to…
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Can We Tech Our Way Out of Climate Change?
Produced by ‘Sway’ What if Silicon Valley’s next big frontier were not web3 but climate change? That’s the bet the…
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Helping Very Hungry Caterpillars Become Butterflies — It’s Complicated
NASHVILLE — After all my blue false indigo was killed by a late frost, I went down to the garden…
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The State of Immunity
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a protracted battle between a generation-defining virus and scientists working at a breakneck pace to…
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Trump Is Still a Threat
Donald Trump is a cancer on this country. Not only because of the way that he has behaved in it…
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This Is No Way to Run a City (or a Country)
Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about the need for a liberalism that builds, and why it requires Democrats…
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Why Strangers Are Good for Us
One Saturday morning, I took my 5-year-old son to the playground. A few minutes into his “ninja training” regimen, he…
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Subsidized Ocean Fishing Threatens the Sea’s Bounty
The World Trade Organization has been struggling for over two decades to reach an agreement among its members to restrict…