Opinion
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We Can’t Get Even Regular Gun Control. How Are We Going to Deal With Ghost Guns?
Mark this on your April calendar: Joe Biden does something about ghost guns. OK, just sort of. But let’s be…
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Does the End of Cash Mean the End of Privacy?
As cash disappears from the modern economy, privacy disappears with it. You can’t spend money with a credit card, debit…
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The Wrong Side of the Gender Gap
The deepening gender gap in American voting, with men favoring the Republican Party and women favoring the Democrats, is well-known,…
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How to Defeat Putin and Save the Planet
It is impossible to predict how the war in Ukraine will end. I fervently hope it’s with a free, secure…
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What if Putin Didn’t Miscalculate?
The conventional wisdom is that Vladimir Putin catastrophically miscalculated. He thought Russian-speaking Ukrainians would welcome his troops ...
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Keep Your Eye on the Three F’s
High inflation in the United States basically reflects two forces. On one side, there’s a lot of disruption: rising oil…
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Scott Joplin’s Ragtime Is Ambrosia. Here’s Why It Matters.
Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre…
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Putin and the Myths of Western Decadence
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was, first and foremost, a crime — indeed, the war crimes continue as you read…
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Putin’s Proxy Culture War
Recently I reached out to Serhiy Leshchenko, one of Ukraine’s most prominent investigative journalists, whom I’d met in Kyiv shortly…
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Here’s the Neat Trick of Biden’s Billionaire Tax
President Biden is trying to pull off a neat trick with his so-called billionaire tax plan: to raise taxes on…