Opinion
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How Bad Is the Global Food Crisis Going to Get?
They were calling it a crisis even before the war began: more than 800 million people in a state of…
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Elon Musk, Mars and the Modern Economy
Elon Musk is clearly having a moment; he’s trying to back out of his deal to buy Twitter, but he…
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What Do You Fear the Most? ‘That I’m Not Who I Should Be.’
OpinionSupported by Continue reading the main storyWhat Do You Fear the Most? ‘That I’m Not Who I Should Be.’ In…
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Boris Johnson Is Fatally Wounded
LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s moment of reckoning has arrived at last. After months of speculation and scandal that…
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From the Big Short to the Big Scam
Remember “The Big Short”? The 2010 book by Michael Lewis, made into a 2015 film, told the story of the…
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Violent Crime Is Up as Cities Lose Police Officers. What Now?
For the second time in three years, the United States enters the summer amid a storm of anger at the…
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Bamboo Is a Salve for Impoverished Nepal
Bamboo makes a fascinating case study of how to do developmental assistance right. Take Nepal, where the fast-growing plant (technically…
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Democrats Can Win This Fall if They Make One Key Promise
Democrats hope to make November’s midterm elections a referendum on Roe v. Wade, the linchpin decision upholding abortion rights, which…
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It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore.
I grew up in the small village of Trang Bang in South Vietnam. My mother said I laughed a lot…
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I Represented Uvalde in Congress. We Must Act on Gun Violence.
Last month, a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, a small, quiet community that I represented in Congress, became a war…