Opinion
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Is a Recession the Only Way to Stop Inflation?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. On Tuesday,…
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Is Investing in Defense Contractors Actually Immoral?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made a lot of us into armchair warriors. Even people who once looked askance at…
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Trump Poses a Test Democracy Is Failing
Ordinary citizens play a critical role in maintaining democracy. They refuse to re-elect — at least in theory — politicians…
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Roberts Has Lost Control of the Supreme Court
Last week the Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 vote, put back into effect a Trump administration regulation that limited the…
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What Do We Do if Putin Uses Chemical Weapons?
There are reports that Russia may be planning to use — or, according to unverified reports from local officials in…
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Inflation Is About to Come Down — but Don’t Get Too Excited
The inflation report for March came in hot, as expected: Consumer prices are up 8.5 percent over the past year.…
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When You Hear the F-Word, Try Picking Up More Than One Meaning
People occasionally complain to me that so many today seem to lean on profanity rather than utilizing the other lexical…
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A Ukrainian Philosopher on What Putin Never Understood About Ukraine
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is only getting more brutal: We’ve seen the bodies of…
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These Men Think You Won’t Like Their Views. But They Want to Feel Free to Express Them.
There was no talk of a stolen election, no conspiracy theories about voter fraud or rants about President Biden’s legitimacy.…
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The Unbelievable Stupidity of Ending Global Covid Aid
America’s attempt to vaccinate the world against Covid is about to come to an end. “We are at a point…