Opinion
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How the American Right Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Russia
Last week, before Russian threats toward Ukrainian borders turned into an all-out invasion, one part of the American media landscape…
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This War Is Not in My Name
I felt sick when I read about Vladimir Putin announcing the start of a “special military operation” in Ukraine. Images…
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Relearning to Walk, a Personal History
This winter, for the third time in my life, I began learning how to do something I was sure I’d…
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We Are All Living in Vladimir Putin’s World Now
Journalists writing on international affairs in the 1920s and 1930s referred to the era as “postwar.” They saw events through…
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Vladimir Putin’s Clash of Civilizations
When the United States, in its hour of hubris, went to war to remake the Middle East in 2003, Vladimir…
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Trayvon Martin Is Still Making America Confront Its Original Sin
OpinionSupported by Continue reading the main storyTrayvon Martin Is Still Making America Confront Its Original Sin Feb. 26, 2022Read in…
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Laundered Money Could Be Putin’s Achilles’ Heel
The United States and its allies aren’t going to intervene with their own forces against Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.…
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We Have Never Been Here Before
The seven most dangerous words in journalism are: “The world will never be the same.” In over four decades of…
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We’ve Entered a New Phase of the Pandemic. It’s Time for New Metrics.
New guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for community masking are a welcome change. They are reasonable,…
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Won’t Be Able to Change a Radical Court. Yet.
It took 233 years, but the United States Supreme Court is finally on the cusp of getting its first Black…