Opinion
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What Vaccine Apartheid Portends for the Climate Future
The pandemic has been furnishing new and distressing episodes almost weekly for more than two years now. But what is…
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Every Day, We’re Told to Use New Lingo. What Does That Really Accomplish?
The left these days gets a bad rap for policing language. It can be irritating to feel like you have…
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Trump, DeSantis, Viktor Orban and the Use of Political Payback
The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, held its first Hungarian edition last week. Attendees were welcomed with an opening…
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When Your Job Fills In for Your Faith, That’s a Problem
Plenty of writers have argued in recent years that work has become “a false idol,” with the office, not church,…
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A Conversation With Ada Limón, in Six Poems
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ “One of the biggest things about poetry is that it holds all of humanity,”…
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Cultural Power Won’t Save Progressives
Andrew Breitbart, founder of the right-wing website Breitbart News, once said that “politics is downstream from culture,” and conservatives have…
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The Perils of Plutocratic Pettiness
The sultans of Silicon Valley are in a political snit, with some billionaires suddenly turning against Democrats. It’s not just…
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High Gas Prices Are a Problem. But Let’s Not Moralize About It.
Prices of gasoline and diesel fuel are crazy high and oil refiners are earning stupendous profits. But the refiners, who…
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Touch Screens in Cars Solve a Problem We Didn’t Have
Despite my best efforts to stay young at heart,I have somehow reached the point in my life — 42 years…
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The Best Public Health Interventions Happen in the Background
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, there’s been a refrain among infectious disease experts: you may be done with the virus, but…