Opinion
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The People, United, Are Not Going to Get Very Far
Two years ago, Amazon fired Christian Smalls after he organized fellow workers at a warehouse on Staten Island to protest…
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Putin Knows What He’s Doing With Ukraine’s Refugees. This Is the World’s Big Test.
The mass flight of refugees from Ukraine has created a humanitarian crisis that dwarfs anything Europe has seen since World…
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Why Putin Went Straight for the Nuclear Threat
The Biden administration has done an admirable job checking Russian disinformation efforts by disclosing U.S. intelligence assessments of Moscow ...
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Sanctioning Russia Is a Form of War. We Need to Treat It Like One.
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ The Russian political scientist Ilya Matveev recently described the impact of the West’s sanctions…
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Will Putin Kill the Global Economy?
Economic commentators always reach for historical analogies, and with good reason. For example, those who had studied past banking crises…
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‘Turning Red’ Is Not a Credit to the Asian Race. That’s Why It’s Good.
Last week, I watched “Turning Red,” the new Pixar movie by Domee Shi, with my 5-year-old daughter. It is about…
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The Russia I Knew Did Not Have to Become a Pariah
It is hard to feel sorry for Russia today, when its army is savaging Ukraine. But for those of us…
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It’s Scary How Dominant Apple Has Become. But How Scary?
How big of a deal is it that a film from Apple, founded as a computer company, just won three…
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We Need More Home Care Workers. But First We Have to Pay Them Enough.
Loretta Copeland, an 81-year-old who lives in Harlem, uses a wheelchair and depends on an aide to help her with…
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Yes, Lynching Is Still a Thing
On a warm August night in 1955 on the outskirts of Money, Miss., about a hundred miles due north of…