Opinion
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Caring Is All We Seem Able to Do
Bags packed for a long overdue vacation, I saw the first reports: “Latest mass shooting” does not narrow it down…
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‘Something Terrible Happened Today’: Parents on Telling Their Kids About Uvalde
Like many parents, I was fighting back tears when I picked up my children from school on Tuesday after the…
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At Least Trump Didn’t Get What He Wanted This Week
Well, the people have spoken. Sort of. Several major elections this week, and the big story was Georgia. The race…
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These Gun Reforms Could Save 15,000 Lives. We Can Achieve Them.
Gun enthusiasts protest that now is the time for mourning, not politics, for national grief rather than polarizing debates about…
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What Is a Country That Won’t Protect Its Children?
There is a cultural obsession nowadays with civility, with the idea that if everyone is mannered enough, any impasse or…
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It Shouldn’t Take This Long to Vaccinate Our Youngest Kids
The Food and Drug Administration last week announced authorization of a third Covid vaccine dose — a single booster —…
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How to Get People to Do What You Want Them to Do
Tommy James & the Shondells sang “Crystal Blue Persuasion.” Economists have their own shade of persuasion — Bayesian. Bayesian persuasion…
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On Taiwan, Biden Should Find His Inner Truman
The White House insists that President Biden did not break with longstanding policy when, at a news conference in Tokyo…
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Abortion Questions for Justice Alito and His Supreme Court Allies
Now that the Oklahoma State Legislature has voted to ban abortion from the moment of conception, I have a few…
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The Heat Is Already On
Last week Stuart Kirk, the head of responsible investing (!) for HSBC’s asset management division, gave a talk titled “Why…