Opinion
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Take a Good Look at What Dr. Oz Is Selling Us Now
It’s perhaps an understatement to say that Americans have a difficult and contradictory relationship with our bodies. Every decade or…
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A Defense of Jeremy Strong (and All the Strivers With No Chill)
In a December New Yorker profile of the actor Jeremy Strong, who plays Kendall Roy on the HBO show “Succession,”…
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Don’t Tell Me You Already Gave Up on Your Resolutions!
It is the end of the first week of January, which means there’s a good chance you’ve already given up…
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Steve Bannon Is Onto Something
In his 2020 book “Politics Is for Power,” Eitan Hersh, a political scientist at Tufts, sketched a day in the…
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We Need a Second Cut of ‘Don’t Look Up’
The new movie “Don’t Look Up,” about a collision between a planet-killing comet and a frivolous America, is something of…
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Parents, It’s Going to Be a Very Long January
As I interview parents for next week’s newsletter about how everyone is faring during the pandemic’s Omicron wave, there’s a…
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What Democratic and Republican Voters Really Think About the State of America
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Wonking Out: Through A Price Index, Darkly
The economy of 2021 had its good points (high job growth) and its bad points (high inflation). I argued in…
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The Radical Normalcy of a Trans ‘Jeopardy!’ Winner
I’d like Transgender Equality for $100, please. The answer is: This kind of behavior infuriates people opposed to progress for…
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The Economic Case for Goldilocks
For the U.S. economy, 2021 was both the best of times and the worst of times — well, maybe not…