Opinion
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A Thank-You Note to Teachers After a Year Under Attack
NASHVILLE — My grandmother was still a teenager when she started her teaching career. She went to college for a…
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The C.E.O. of Condé Nast: ‘This Is No Longer a Magazine Company’
Produced by ‘Sway’ Home to brands like Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Bon Appétit, Condé Nast might as well…
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Republicans Can’t Handle Losing
For much of the past decade, the Republican Party’s ability to win power in Washington has rested on the counter-majoritarian…
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Putin Rules Russia Like an Asylum
“Since the 16th century,” wrote the dissident Russian journalist Valeria Novodvorskaya, “we have existed according to the laws of manic…
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A Million Americans Have Died From Covid. We Need to Mourn Together.
“There is no time to grieve now, there is no time. There is only time for labor in the cold,”…
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My Lunch With President Biden
President Biden invited me for lunch at the White House last Monday. But it was all off the record —…
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How My Father, Ronald Reagan, Grappled With Abortion
Like every offspring of a famous political figure, I frequently round a corner and slam straight into some aspect of…
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Some #MeToo Cases Are Clear-Cut. What Do We Do When They’re Not?
The actor Frank Langella tells a story about filming a sex scene on the set of Roger Vadim’s 1988 remake…
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We Must Prepare for Putin’s Worst Weapons
Russia’s foreign minister and its ambassador to the United States have both signaled that Russia’s debacle in Ukraine could lead…
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Walter Mosley Brilliantly Depicted Black English — and Black Thought
About 20 years ago, I gave a talk at a bookstore on race issues. Afterward, a white woman on the…