Opinion
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Where, in This Senate Circus, Is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
If you thought that a misadventure in Cancún would tame Ted Cruz — would put bounds on his boasts, a…
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The Using of Ketanji Brown Jackson
Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominees have long drifted into the realm of inconsequential theater. Rarely is there…
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How Will the Ukraine War End?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. As Ukrainian…
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‘You Don’t Know Squat!’ and Other Signs of Our High-Minded Politics
Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesHey, it’s spring, people — all kinds of fun things coming around the bend. Picnics! Postpandemic…
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The Next Covid Wave Is Probably Already on Its Way
The most important lesson of the Covid pandemic is that the only constant is change. Variants spread, cases surge and…
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A Low Birthrate Was Supposed to Weaken Russia. What Happened?
Pundits like to say demography is destiny, but the people who know the subject best — demographers — don’t entirely…
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Xi, Putin and Trump: The Strongmen Follies
The last five years have been a master class in comparative politics, because something happened that we’d never seen before…
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A New Iran Deal Leaves Us Meeker and Weaker
What does President Biden think he will get out of a new nuclear deal with Iran? A year ago, the…
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Is Slang as Swell as It Used to Be? Yas!
The first Looney Tunes star character, before Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the others, was a blandly joyous little Mickey…
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Odessa and the Ukraine That Should Have Been
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has sent the prices of many commodities skyrocketing. And it’s not just oil and gas.…