Opinion
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Will Elon Musk Save Twitter or Destroy It?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. As with…
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How to Make Miscarriage More Traumatic
In December, I wrote a newsletter with the headline, “Overturning Roe Will Make Miscarriage Care Worse.” I pointed out that…
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A Scrappier Model for Netflix Might Be More Sustainable
In the minutes after Netflix reported its quarterly earnings last week, the entire entertainment business had questions. Was that stock…
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Classical Music Doesn’t Have to Be Ugly to Be Good
In the early 1990s, I was in a chorus assigned to sing a contemporary classical piece that was, in a…
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A Nameless Soldier, a Shameless Politician and a Soulless Leader
I am thinking about three people today whose behavior could have a significant impact on the world in the coming…
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French Lessons for the Biden Administration
You probably breathed a deep sigh of relief when you heard that Emmanuel Macron trounced Marine Le Pen by a…
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Food, Fertilizer and the Future
As anyone who drives is aware, gasoline prices are up a lot from their 2020 low. First, global economic recovery…
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Musk’s Twitter: Weed Memes. Editable Tweets. And the Return of Trump.
So, Elon Musk finally claimed his Twitter plaything. That may have seemed impossible earlier this month as Twitter adopted a…
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Twitter Under Elon Musk Will Be a Scary Place
Twitter has never been a place for rational, nuanced speech. Expect it to get much, much worse. The decision by…
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The Awful Advent of Reactionary Chic
David Brock, the conservative journalistic hit man turned Hillary Clinton acolyte, described how he first became a reactionary in his…