Opinion
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Biden Keeps Blaming the Supply Chain for Inflation. That’s Dishonest.
In an interview with Lester Holt of NBC last week, President Biden hewed closely to his talking points on inflation,…
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The Moral Danger of Declaring the Pandemic Over Too Soon
The early 1990s were in many ways the most terrible of those first years of the AIDS epidemic in America.…
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The U.S. Is Out of Afghanistan, but Our Allies Remain Trapped
On Aug. 10, 2021, days before the collapse of Afghanistan’s government, Fawad Khan Safi arrived in the United States to…
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After a Plague, a Labor Reckoning
In the wake of a devastating pandemic, millions of people are dead and many more have had their lives upended.…
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Should We Blame Mitch McConnell or Brad Pitt?
Pop quiz: When lawmakers meet to study the 2020 census results and redraw their congressional and state legislative districts, their…
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I’m Russian, and My Family Is Ukrainian. War Would Be a Tragedy.
To an ethnic Russian who came of age in the twilight of the Soviet Union, nothing feels more absurd than…
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Don’t Wish for a Post-Pax Americana
Who knows, at this writing, what Vladimir Putin will decide to do with the forces he’s massed along Ukraine’s borders?…
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Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them.
The Encores! series at New York City Center has, a program for the new season reads, “staged weeklong revivals of…
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Why We Are Not Facing the Prospect of a Second Civil War
It has not been uncommon, in recent years, to hear Americans worry about the advent of a new civil war.…
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Trump’s Big China Flop and Other Failures
Do you remember Donald Trump’s trade war? You can be forgiven for having forgotten all about it, given everything that…