Opinion
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Let’s Bring the Supreme Court Back Down to Earth
A new vacancy on the Supreme Court means a new round of political theater over the beliefs and qualifications of…
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Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet
OpinionSupported by Continue reading the main storyMeet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet Feb. 1, 2022, 5:00 a.m.…
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You — Yes, You! — Can Save Democracy
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ There’s good reason to worry about the future of democracy, and little reason to…
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Our Prenatal Testing System Is Broken
Our 16-year-old daughter, Penny, wakes up to the beeping of her alarm. On her way downstairs, she picks up her…
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Big Business Will Not Save Us From Itself
When Larry Fink, the chief executive of the asset management company BlackRock, wrote in his 2022 annual letter to corporate…
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Guns, Germs, Bitcoin and the Antisocial Right
In February 2021 a deep freeze caused widespread power outages in Texas, leaving about 10 million Texans without electricity, in…
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The Path to Social Equity in Higher Ed Doesn’t Run Through Harvard
Last Thursday, I wrote about the Harvard affirmative action case and what I see as a broken system of racial…
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Wealth Inequality Drives the Appeal of Crypto
While I was preparing this week’s newsletter about the cultural economics of cryptocurrency and blockchain, crypto trading tanked. Suddenly, my…
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How the Fed Is and Isn’t ‘the Supreme Court of Finance’
The Federal Reserve is sometimes called “the Supreme Court of finance.” That’s a stretch, of course, but the analogy does…
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The Democrats’ Use of Dark Money: Is It Hypocritical?
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