Opinion
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This ‘Could Kill Far More Afghans Than the Past 20 Years of War’
Ninety-five percent of Afghans don’t have enough to eat. Nearly nine million are at risk of starvation. The U.N.’s emergency…
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Why We Love Lazy, Drunk, Broke Women on TV
When we meet Sam, the 40-something protagonist of the HBO dramedy “Somebody Somewhere,” she has returned to her hometown, Manhattan,…
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These Tax Laws ‘Make Scofflaws of Us All’
Congratulations, road warrior. Last year you did business in five states in a week — emails from airports, phone calls…
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A Stock Trading Ban Could Help Restore Trust in Congress
Americans are in a sour mood with their elected officials. Blame the pandemic or inflation or Trumpism or stress or…
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Wonking Out: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Inflation
Good news on inflation has been hard to come by lately. But this week we got two encouraging reports from…
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The Dark Century
In the early 1990s I was a roving correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Europe. Some years it…
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Mr. Biden, Your Good Economy Won’t Sell Itself
Thirteen months into the Biden administration, Democrats face a troubling paradox. By many measures the economy has done very well,…
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What Would It Mean to End the Covid State of Emergency?
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What Happens When Angry Asian American Parents Get Organized
Our anxiety over the upcoming midterm and presidential elections has turned every vote, however local and peculiar, into a referendum…
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Why Some Red States Aren’t Going for Broke on Abortion — Yet
In 2019 a wave of anti-abortion laws swept this country — a common enough event in the United States, where…