Opinion
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When It Comes to Politics, Are Any of Us Really Thinking for Ourselves?
If you’re trying to guess whether people are Republicans or Democrats, knowing a few basic facts about them will take…
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Elon Musk Is Preoccupied With Something He Doesn’t Understand
There is no particular mystery to unravel around the political views of Elon Musk, the billionaire technology and social media…
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James Carville, the Cajun Who Can’t Stop Ragin’
A few years ago, when James Carville was teaching at Louisiana State University, he heard that one of his students…
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Hey, Losers! Here’s How to Bring Baseball’s Very Boring Era to an End.
Last year, Major League Baseball instituted a slew of new rules that were largely intended to have a single effect:…
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The Online Degradation of Women and Girls That We Meet With a Shrug
Alarms are blaring about artificial intelligence deepfakes that manipulate voters, like the robocall sounding like President Biden that went to…
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We Thought We Had Spotted an Exotic Bloom. It Was the Vividly Colored Remains of a Soda Bottle.
It is springtime, and I want to turn to thoughts of love. In my case, love of this world, love…
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The ‘Blood Bath’ Battle and the Electric Car War
If you believe President Biden’s aides and allies, he intends to fight the 2024 election primarily on the threat that…
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The Real Royal Scandal Is on Us
Americans have always loved a royal scandal, even a smidgen more than British royalists do themselves. Some of this is…
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Will the Rotters Keep Hounding Kate?
On Wednesday night I went to see “Corruption” at Lincoln Center. Written by J.T. Rogers and directed by Bartlett Sher,…
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Will A.I. Take All Our Jobs? This Economist Suggests Maybe Not.
Let’s say for now that the day comes when robots and artificial intelligence can outperform human beings at every conceivable…