Opinion
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These Policies Were Supposed to Help Black People. They’re Backfiring.
New York City has experienced an alarming rise in violence over the past two years. From 2019 to 2021, murders…
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When ‘Freedom’ Means the Right to Destroy
On Sunday the Canadian police finally cleared away anti-vaccine demonstrators who had been blocking the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and…
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How Can This University Charge Nothing for Tuition?
Last Monday I got an email from a university president about Tara Westover’s powerful Opinion essay this month on her…
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We Weren’t Wrong to Love ‘The Cosby Show’
About a year before the pandemic entered the chat, I got an invitation to participate in a documentary. The email…
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Can We Get Smarter About Disinformation?
Over the past five or so years, “disinformation”has become a catchall explanation for what ails the country. Everything from QAnon…
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Mr. President, It’s Time for a Little Humility
Right now, the White House is gearing up for the president’s first State of the Union address. His speechwriters are…
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‘We’ve Never Been Smuggled Before’
On a sunny day in late October, I visited a smuggler’s safe house, one of the many seedy hotels lining…
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How the Sacklers Got Away With It
Produced by ‘Sway’ Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died of opioid overdoses in the past 20 years — and…
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Is the Web3 Gold Rush the Beginning of a New Internet or a Scam?
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There Will Be No Post-Covid
There have been many stages of our collective Covid reaction. There was the initial panic, with the shortages of toilet…