Opinion
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Can We Still Be Optimistic About America?
This is a season — an age, really — of American pessimism. The pessimism comes in many flavors. There is…
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I Think It’s Fine to Say ‘I Feel Like.’ I Reckon Others Do, Too.
I want to take up a language peeve I hear a lot about: The uptick in (often younger) people prefacing…
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If You Think Republicans Will Stop at Overturning Roe, You Aren’t Paying Attention
The right-wing attack on abortion will not end with abortion. Defenders of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that would overrule…
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Overturning Roe Will Disrupt a Lot More Than Abortion. I Can Live With That.
For years I have noticed a persistent inclination among my fellow opponents of abortion. Perhaps without meaning to do so,…
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What I Want My Kids to Learn About American Racism
I first heard the phrase “white supremacy” in my introductory sociology course at the University of Illinois in 1993. The…
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Democrats Have an Image Problem. Please, Don’t Make It Worse.
Democrats have an image problem. We’re seen as the party of urban elites —pampered, overeducated dweebs, soft-handed dandies who ride…
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Drinking Tea on the Front Line in Ukraine
First the whiz and then the explosion a second later. One after another. One after another. I was hiding in…
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How Trump Helped Transform Nebraska Into a Toxic Political Hellhole
LINCOLN, Neb. — In the old days, Charles W. Herbster, a cattle baron and bull semen tycoon who used his…
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‘If Economists Are So Smart, Why Ain’t They Rich?’
After I wrote a newsletter last month on how economists’ views differ from those of ordinary people, I got emails…
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‘You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet’: What’s Next if Roe Goes
Produced by ‘The Argument’ It was a historic twist in an already historic case: A draft opinion of a Supreme…